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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Celebrity and Modernity
Notes
1: Voltaire in Paris
“The Most Famous Man in Europe”
Voltaire and Janot
Notes
2: Society of the Spectacle
The Birth of Stars: The Economics of Celebrity
Scandal at the Opera
“Something Idolatrous”
A European Celebrity
The Invention of the Fan(atic)
Notes
3: A First Media Revolution
The Visual Culture of Celebrity
Public Figurines
Idols and Puppets
“Heroes of the Hour”
Private Lives, Public Figures
Notes
4: From Glory to Celebrity
Trumpeting Fame
Conceptualizing Celebrity
Celebrity
“Chastisement for Merit”
Notes
5: Loneliness of the Celebrity
“The Celebrity of Misfortune”
Ami Jean-Jacques
Eccentricity, Exemplarity, Celebrity
The Burden of Celebrity
Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques
The Disfiguration
Notes
6: The Power of Celebrity
A Fashion Victim?
Revolutionary Popularity
The President is a Great Man
Sunset Island
Notes
7: Romanticism and Celebrity
Byromania
Prestige and Obligations
Women Seduced and Public Women
Virtuosos
Celebrity in America
Democratic Popularity and Popular Sovereignty
“Celebrities of the Hour”
Toward a New Age of Celebrity
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Postface
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
Color Plates
End User License Agreement
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