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Celebrity [ Publicity ]

… Abstract Celebrity was a form of sociability as well as a form of publicity that took 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 …

Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]

… health, the paradox of regulation and freedom, the transformation of the self in a specific environment and the role of celebrity in the emergence of new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Keywords Health Open society Master of Ceremonies Spa doctor regulation Identity celebrity Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for Neil McKendrick … who were known to frequent the more fashionable spas such as Pyrmont in the eighteenth century.   Spa sociability and celebrity The celebrity of Bath in the ‘Age of watering-places,’ a phrase coined by R.B. Mowat in England in the …

Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]

… of sociability’s performative nature. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Cities Keywords performance affect media celebrity acting public Coffeehouse play riot Spaces The name Theatre Royal, Drury Lane refers to a succession of four … ‘had always longed to see him [Garrick] in all his great characters,’ a viewing practice that speaks to theatrical celebrity’s growing import. Burney was shaken at seeing her family’s friend transformed into a villain and moved by … like Garrick and Siddons were able to mobilize respectable domestic ideology and financial success as part of their celebrity. Iterative contact with genteel society  within Drury Lane Theatre and increased media representation of the …

Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]

… those he called friend would remain sacred throughout his life. People > Association Keywords Friendship Worldliness celebrity networks Patronage theater Voltaire styled himself the ‘hermit of the Alps’ 1  in much of the correspondence he … author; his network of ‘fanatics,’ 7 to quote Charles Collé, were the mark of another form of sociability built around celebrity. 8   To speak of Voltaire and his rapport with sociability is to accept paradox: Candide leads us to believe … but the ties with those he called friend would remain sacred throughout his life. … Friendship … Worldliness … celebrity … networks … Patronage … theater … Voltaire (and his social networks) …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Keywords poetry Friendship Scriblerus Club Correspondence Literary celebrity Enmity Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, Alexander Pope was one of the most … it was generally understood by his contemporaries. … poetry … Friendship … Scriblerus Club … Correspondence … Literary celebrity … Enmity … Alexander Pope …

Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]

… synonymous with sociability within the intellectual and cultural circles of London. Part of the reason for this was the celebrity he gradually gained by a lifetime of work as a professional writer, with publications, like his Rambler essays … and being sought out as a famous man are not the same as sociability. Johnson accepted the consequences of literary celebrity – and of notoriety – but he actively engaged in sociability, valuing it, even relying on it, not least when one …