Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… its modern form over the course of the long eighteenth century. It was related to, but distinct from, the experience of fame. A recognizably modern form of celebrity can be identified in Britain by the later seventeenth century. By the turn of the eighteenth century, celebrity was a common form of fame that relied upon print and other media as well as on a modern sense of the self as a distinct, individual character. … century as a noun identifying particularly famous, and interesting, individuals. Concepts > Publicity Keywords Celebrity Fame News Politics Self Celebrity is a form of fame that became prominent in the modern age. The historiography of …
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