Making Stars

NORA NACHUMI is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and coordinator of the minor in Women's Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University in New York, NY. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage and has published essays and book chapters on female novelists, playwrights, pedagogy and film adaptation.KRISTINA STRAUB is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century theatre, sexuality, and gender. She co-curated "Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity" at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNora Nachumi and Kristina StraubPART IREPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte CharkeStuart Sherman2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth CenturySemane Parsons3 Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic SatireHeather McPhersonPART IIMARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible CelebritySören Hammerschmidt5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to TodayKevin Bourque6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal CelebrityGlynis RidleyPART IIILIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland's Quest for Anonymous CelebrityJack Lynch8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public AdjudicationElaine McGirr9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of StrathmoreSarah AilwoodPART IVTHE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des PrincesAnne Betty Weinshenker11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret HistoryRebecca Tierney-Hynes12 The Everyday Celebrity of "Sir" Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of GarratMiriam WallacePART VWHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?13 A "Universally Sorrowful Sensation": National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte AugustaTeri Doerksen14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary BlandyKirsten T. Saxton15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of CelebrityJane WesselNotes on ContributorsIndex