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Celebrity [ Publicity ]

… 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. Eventually, the word ‘celebrity’ … identifying particularly famous, and interesting, individuals. Concepts > Publicity Keywords celebrity publicity Fame media self biography News Henry Sacheverell Celebrity is a form of fame that became prominent in the modern age. The … prints and material artefacts that were sold as commodities. Modern celebrity is thus posited as the product of a modern media ecology in which words and images about people, and especially about exceptionally interesting people, could …

Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]

… genteel, and performative literary sociability outside the institution, in theatrical discourse across various media from newspapers to novels. Drury Lane Theatre was a crucible for the formation of social behaviour and the … examination 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 … and view the scenes and costumes to greater effect. 3 3 . Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage During His Own Time (London: John …

Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]

… and gender lines. Forms of sociability discussed include dance and voodoo on plantations; the culture of maronnage; the mediating role of free women of colour in marriages and business; and the theatre. The entry shows how racialisation … from one plantation or town for those of others. 5  When a maroon sought to return to the plantation, a chain of intermediaries could be involved to placate the slave owner or manager. The success in mitigating the punishment depended on … men of wealth kept up social relations in order to marry their children into other wealthy families or to serve as intermediaries to help families pursue their marriage strategies. Some women of colour ran commercial operations in the port …

Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]

… drinking. As an event, the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the … drinking. As an event, the practice of tea drinking was a polite and sociable encounter staged around the tea-table. In media representations (visual culture, poetry, essays) the term ‘tea-table’ increasingly served as a synecdoche for the …

Reading [ Reading & Writing ]

… of a wider network of beliefs and world-views, sensitivity and empathy. 1   1 . The transition from manuscript to print media over the course of the long eighteenth century contributed to the spread of the existing textual conventions and … reading-writing form of communication) playing a vital role in familiarizing the growing audience with such new printed media like novels, biographies or newspapers and periodicals. See Rachel Scarborough King in Writing to the World: … ‘Mr Richardson … reading to his friends’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D5810, 1804. The novelist relied on the immediate comments or later correspondence ( many letters and long, endless debates) of his readership (above, from left to …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… scenario, private and public life merged: letters, diaries, memoirs, confessions were highly appreciated literary media, as the birth of the epistolary novel demonstrates: Pamela in fact became a model, not indeed for letters, but for … the City in Western Civilization (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996), p. 347. 14 . Roger Silverstone, Why Study the Media? (London: Sage, 1999), p. 147. 15 . See, for instance: Michael Hofmann, Habermas’s public sphere: a critique … Van Horn, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2012) . Thompson, John B., The Media and Modernity. A Social Theory of the Media (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press,1995). Williams, Kevin, Read all About it: …