Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850

Tom Mole is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University.

• Introduction Tom Mole; Part I. Apparatus: 1. Celebrity and the spectacle of nation Jason Goldsmith; 2. Celebrity, politics, and the rhetoric of genius David Higgins; 3. The physiognomy of the lion: countering literary celebrity in the nineteenth century Richard Salmon; Part II. Sites: 4. Rara avis or fozy turnip: Rossini as celebrity in 1820s London Benjamin Walton; 5. Daniel Mendoza and sporting celebrity: a case study Peter Briggs; 6. Siddons rediviva: death, memory, and theatrical afterlife Heather McPherson; Part III. Gender: 7. Trials of the dandy: George Brummell's scandalous celebrity Clara Tuite; 8. Celebrity violence in the careers of Savage, Pope, and Johnson Linda Zionkowski; 9. Mary Robinson's conflicted celebrity Tom Mole; Part IV. Audience: 10. Patron or patronized?: 'fans' and the eighteenth-century English stage Cheryl Wanko; 11. Byron, commonplacing and early fan culture Corin Throsby; 12. Ann Hatton's celebrity pursuits Judith Pascoe; Bibliography; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'Mole's collection of well-written essays is an indispensable supplement to the numerous histories of and companions to Romanticism.' Anglia