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FASHIONING CELEBRITY IBD

LAURA ENGEL
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRES
03 / 2016
9780814253786
Anglès

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This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actressesâÇÖ autobiographical memoirs, portraits, and theatrical roles together as significant strategies for shaping their careers. á In an era when acting was considered a suspicious profession for women, eighteenth-century actresses were 'celebrities' in a society obsessed with fashion, gossip, and intrigue. Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making, by LauraáEngel, considers the lives and careers of four actresses: Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, Mary Wells, and Fanny Kemble. Using conventions of the eraâÇÖs portraiture, fashion, literature, and the theater in order to create their personas on and off stage, these actresses provided a series of techniques for fashioning celebrity that still survive today. á By emphasizing the importance of reading narratives through visual and theatrical frameworks and visual and theatrical representations through narrative models, Engel demonstrates the ways in which actressesâÇÖ identities were imagined through a variety of discourses that worked dialectically to construct their complex self-representations. á Fashioning Celebrity suggests that eighteenth-century practices of self-promotion mirror contemporary ideas about marketing, framing, and selling the elusive self, providing a way to begin to chart a history of our contemporary obsession with fame and our preoccupation with the rise and fall of famous women.

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