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… English began to abbreviate the word ‘fanatic’ to ‘fan’ in the later nineteenth century with reference to baseball team supporters (Mole xi-xii). Before the Victorian age, the word fanatic was a term of derision that referred primarily … the way in which early modern fame can be understood as both traditional and modern at the same time. 8 . Karen A. Winstead, The Oxford History of Life Writing, Vol. 1: The Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018); Allan Stewart, …
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