Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… Image Frequency of the word ‘celebrity’ in English texts. Source: Google Ngram Viewer (24 January 2016); compare Lilti, Figures publiques, p. 147. … Portrait Gallery, NPG D18746. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw75226/Henry-Sacheverell 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 …
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