… of good society (Jesse I: 99; Kelly 181-182). For contemporaries, Brummell’s verbal style was a central element of this performance. In Regency London, a few hundred families belonged to good society, following its often very elaborate …
… the Mediation of Celebrity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019); Felicity Nussbaum, Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance and the Eighteenth-Century Theater (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010); Julie Peakman, …