Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2007). 2 . Stella Tillyard, ‘Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century London’, History Today (vol. 55, June 2005), p. 20-27, here p. 21. Fig. 1: Frequency of the word ‘celebrity’ in English texts. … church conformists. The argument for the eighteenth-century invention of celebrity is based on more than just lexical history. Modern celebrity is distinguished from more traditional forms of fame, which are argued to be rooted in premodern … celebrity is seen as a distinctly modern form, is not universally accepted. There is an alternative, longer term, history of celebrity that emphasizes continuity between premodern and modern forms of fame. 5 This historiography sees …
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