From antiquity to today, human culture has always been obsessed with fame, infamy, and celebrity. Fame is essential to history itself, distilling what a culture remembers of the past, celebrates as significant in the present, and bequeaths as cultural memory to the future. From emperors to film stars, from literary works to religious relics, and from natural catastrophes to scientific breakthroughs, fame is defined by cultural visibility and is created, communicated, and consumed through media and representation. A Cultural History of Fame examines the concept of fame and its manifestations - in ideas, places, artefacts, and people - across the last 3000 years.
The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history. The volumes are:
1. A Cultural History of Fame in Antiquity 2. A Cultural History of Fame in the Medieval Age 3. A Culture History of Fame in the Renaissance 4. A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Enlightenment 5. A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution 6. A Cultural History of Fame in the Modern Age
Themes (and chapter titles) are: the communication of fame; the arts, philosophy and attention; politics, leadership and power; religion, spirituality, and immortality; the visibility of events, places and things; infamy and scandal; innovation, science and its public expression; the construction and presentation of heroes.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1536pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Fame is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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The first comprehensive history of fame and celebrity from antiquity to today.
Series Contents:
1. A Cultural History of Fame in Antiquity
2. A Cultural History of Fame in the Medieval Age
3. A Culture History of Fame in the Renaissance
4. A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Enlightenment
5. A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution
6. A Cultural History of Fame in the Modern Age
Individual Volume Contents:
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Fame in Antiquity
List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Introduction, Charles W. Hedrick, Jr.
1. The Communication of Fame: Attention and the Market for Information,
Charles W. Hedrick, Jr.
2. The Arts, Philosophy and Attention: Celebrity Authors in Ancient Rome,
Luke Roman
3. Politics, Leadership and Power: Fame and Aristocratic Self-Fashioning
in the Greco-Roman World, Andrew Gallia
4. Religion, Spirituality, Immortality and Renown: Religious Fame in the
Greco-Roman World, Heidi Wendt
5. Visibility of Events, Places and Things, Ida Östenberg
6. Infamy and Scandal: The Roman Republic, Cristina Rosillo-López
7. Innovation, Science, and Its Public Expression, Håkan Tell
8. The Construction and Presentation of Heroes: Paradoxes of Honor and
Fame, Ryan Balot and Daniel Schillinger
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Fame in the Medieval Age
List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Introduction: The Historical Semantics and Cultural Contexts of Fame,
Francesco Migliorino
1. The Communication of Fame, Claude Gauvard
2. The Arts, Philosophy and Attention, Martial Staub
3. Politics, Leadership and Power, SunHee Kim Gertz
4. Religion, Spirituality, Immortality and Renown, Luigi Canetti
5. Visibility of Events, Places and Things, Arianna Rotondo
6. Infamy and Scandal: Their place in the History of European Law, Richard
H. Helmholz
7. Innovation, Science and its Public Expression: The redefinition of fame
and celebrity in medieval intellectual circles, Steven J. Livesey
8. The Construction and Presentation of Heroes: Fama and the Illustrious
Men in the Late Middle Ages, Gianni Guastella
Editors Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance
Series Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Arnoud Visser
1. The Communication of Fame, Raymond B. Waddington
2. The Arts, Philosophy and Attention, Matthias Roick
3. Politics, Leadership and Power, Ronald Asch
4. Religion, Spirituality and Renown, Jan Machielsen
5. Visibility of Events, Places and Things, Stijn Bussels
6. Infamy and ScandalUna McIlvenna
7. Science, Innovation and its Public Expression, Marian Füssel
8. The Construction and Presentation of Heroes, Margaret Franklin
End Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Enlightenment
List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Introduction, Brian Cowan
1 The Communication of Fame, Max Skjönsberg
2 The Arts, Philosophy and Attention, Meghan K. Roberts
3 Politics, Leadership and Power, Emrys Jones
4 Religion, Spirituality, Immortality and Renown, Brian Cowan
5 Visibility of Events, Places and Things, Brian Cowan
6 Infamy and Scandal, Pascal Bastien
7 Innovation, Science and its Public Expression, Ted McCormick
8 The Construction and Presentation of Heroes, Hervé Drevillon
EDITORS acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution
List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Introduction: Fame, Glamour, and the Good Life, Eva Giloi
1 The Communication of Fame, Betto van Waarden
2 The Arts, Philosophy and Attention: Fame and Feedback in the
Clipping-Agency Age, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
3 Politics, Leadership, and Power, Francesco Buscemi
4 Religion and Renown: Religion, Spirituality, Immortality, Monica
Black
5 Visibility of Events, Places, and Things: Napoleons Century, Peter
Fritzsche
6 Innovation, Science, and its Public Expression: Science and Fame in
the Age of Nationalism, Martin Kohlrausch
7 Infamy and Scandal: Public Trials and the Mass Media in the Belle
Epoque, Matthew Unangst
8 The Construction and Presentation of Heroes and Heroines, Heidi
Mehrkens
End Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Fame in the Modern Age
List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Introduction, Katja Lee
1. The Communication of Fame: technological extensions of fame, P. David
Marshall
2. The Arts, Philosophy and Attention, Gaylyn Studlar
3. Politics, Leadership and Power, Mark Wheeler
4. Religion, Spirituality, Immortality and Renown, Marcus Moberg
5. Visibility of Events, Places and Things, Lincoln Geraghty
6. Infamy and Scandal, Erin A. Meyers
7. Innovation, Science and its Public Expression, Declan Fahy
8. The Construction and Presentation of Heroes, George R. Goethals and
Scott T. Allison
End Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
P. David Marshall is Emeritus Professor at Deakin University, Australia, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His authored works include Persona Studies: An Introduction (2020) and Advertising and Promotional Cultures: Case Histories (2018). His edited works include A Companion to Celebrity (2016) and The Celebrity Culture Reader (2006). He is the co-founder of the journals, M/C- a journal of media and culture and Persona Studies.
