Popular Magazines, Popular Culture
Gradations of Celebrity in the Romantic Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879728 |
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| Authors | Brian Rejack (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author), Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 626-638 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00722.x |
| OpenAlex | W2163389746 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Celebrity and popular culture emerged simultaneously, and synergistically, in part through the agency of the periodical press during the romantic period. As modes of fame multiplied, the audience of celebrity understood itself as a collective—often British, polite, class‐oriented—and as individuals modeled through the individualized celebrity that periodicals could project. This process—centered on fashion and fame—integrated notions of the popular and the common with those of the spectacular and the unique. For emerging discourses that consolidated middle‐class ideals, such as gastronomy, sports, and contemporary etiquette, the popular magazines occupied a crucial position in what Jon Klancher has denominated “the social text” and helped legitimize themselves by producing their own localized celebrities. Exploring articles from a range of periodicals on a diverse set of topics, this essay shows the reliance of popular magazines on popular culture, understood both in terms of those celebrities of popularity and those commonplace games, sports, and activities associated with the populace
Advertising · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Celebrity culture · Etiquette · Grice · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Period (music · Politeness · Political science · Popular culture · Popular music · Popularity · Romance · Social science · Sociology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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