Celebrity Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century

An Interdisciplinary Overview

Bibliographic Data

ID12880236
AuthorsCheryl Wanko (West Chester University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume8
Issue6
Pages351-362
Publication date2011-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLiterature Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00806.x
OpenAlexW1508692127
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited30

The work done to date on the development of celebrity culture in the long 18th century ranges across fields as diverse as theater and criminology, art and boxing, and music and oral culture, as scholars examine how celebrity operates within discrete segments of the public sphere as well as across them. Celebrity studies is more than a simple description of a star’s popularity. Instead, it examines how personal, social, media, political, and economic events create local conditions of popularity, how a celebrity’s popular images circulate within a culture, and what the celebrity means to a culture; it also traces how concepts of merit and fame change over time. Individual studies of celebrities and the fans, audiences, and readers who admire them are joined by interdisciplinary studies that best capture the breadth of celebrity’s foundations and effects

Aesthetics · Art · Celebrity culture · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Popular media · Popularity · Public sphere · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Social Psychology

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