This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830. It examines genres from history writing to literature, public and private memoirs to political treatises in English and in French in order to explore 'The age of personality's' obsession with instantaneous publicity.

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CLAIRE BROCK is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published articles in History Workshop Journal, Women's Writing and Studies in Romanticism and is the author of a monograph on the career of the astronomer Caroline Herschel. She is currently working on a book about women and the physical sciences from Caroline Herschel to Mary Somerville and was the recipient of the British Society for the History of Science's 2004 Singer Prize for an article on Mary Somerville.

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Book Title: The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830
Authors: Claire Brock
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286450
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8991-8Published: 11 July 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28645-0Published: 11 July 2006
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 242
Topics: Cultural History, European History, Modern History, Literature, general, History of Britain and Ireland, History of France

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