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This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actressesâ autobiographical memoirs, portraits, and theatrical roles together as significant strategies for shaping their careers. In an era when acting was considered a suspicious profession for women, eighteenth-century actresses were âcelebritiesâ in a society obsessed with fashion, gossip, and intrigue. Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making, by Laura Engel, considers the lives and careers of four actresses: Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, Mary Wells, and Fanny Kemble. Using conventions of the eraâs portraiture, fashion, literature, and the theater in order to create their personas on and off stage, these actresses provided a series of techniques for fashioning celebrity that still survive today. By emphasizing the importance of reading narratives through visual and theatrical frameworks and visual and theatrical representations through narrative models, Engel demonstrates the ways in which actressesâ identities were imagined through a variety of discourses that worked dialectically to construct their complex self-representations. Fashioning Celebrity suggests that eighteenth-century practices of self-promotion mirror contemporary ideas about marketing, framing, and selling the elusive self, providing a way to begin to chart a history of our contemporary obsession with fame and our preoccupation with the rise and fall of famous women.
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9780814292471 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, April 28, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actressesâ autobiographical memoirs, portraits, and theatrical roles together as significant strategies for shaping their careers.
9780814211489 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 28, 2011, cover price $44.95
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9780814253786 | Reprint edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, March 21, 2016), cover price $24.95
Product Description: For the first time in Through Thick and Thin, Gok reveals all about his life changing period. The lessons Gok learned during this time helped him bounce back from a difficult childhood to become a stylist to the stars, every womanâs best friend, and a national treasure...read more
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9780091938390 | Ebury Pr, October 14, 2010, cover price $32.25 | About this edition: Inspirational autobiography by every woman's favourite, Gok Wan.
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9780091938383 | Reprint edition (Ebury Pr, July 29, 2011), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: For the first time in Through Thick and Thin, Gok reveals all about his life changing period.
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9781847372789 | Gardners Books, September 3, 2009, cover price $24.65
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9781847393166 | Gardners Books, August 6, 2009, cover price $15.45
One of the most photographed women in Britain, Coleen knows what it's like to live in the celebrity glare. The fully updated paperback of her number one bestselling style autobiography 'Welcome to My World' offers exclusive insights into her transformation from an ordinary Liverpudlian schoolgirl into a glamorous style icon.
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9780007255429 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, February 4, 2008, cover price $12.35 | About this edition: One of the most photographed women in Britain, Coleen knows what it's like to live in the celebrity glare.
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