Abstract
Modern character and celebrity are both inventions of the eighteenth century. Just as character is a precondition for caricature, so character enabled the development of celebrity, while the rapid rise of celebrity further paved the way for caricatures, which, completing the circle, are frequently of theatrical celebrities. Both character and celebrity are at home on the stage, which so adeptly deploys spectacle to stage – to manifest – interiority. Both character and celebrity promise to make personality and/or moral worth visible. Not surprisingly then, it is in the realm of performance that the interrelations of character, celebrity and caricature are easiest to see.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Character and Caricature, 1660–1820 |
| Editors | Jennifer Buckley, Montana Davies-Shuck |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 191-196 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031485138 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031485121 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 29 May 2024 |
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Publisher Copyright:© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
Keywords
- celebrity studies
- eighteenth-century studies
- literary history
- character
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