Constructing charisma : celebrity, fame, and power in nineteenth-century Europe /
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Constructing charisma. Charisma and the making of imperial heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914 / Edward Berenson ; "So writes the hand that swings the sword" : autograph hunting and royal charisma in the German empire, 1861-1888 / Eva Giloi ; The workings of royal celebrity : Wilhelm II as media emperor / Martin Kohlrausch
- Part II: Celebrity as performance. From the top : Liszt's aristocratic airs / Dana Gooley ; Celebrity gifting : Mallarmé and the poetics of fame / Emily Apter ; Rethinking female celebrity : the eccentric star of nineteenth-century France / Mary Louise Roberts
- Part III: The politics of fame. Byron, death, and the afterlife / Stephen Minta ; The historical actor / Peter Fritzsche ; Celebrity, patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt / Kenneth E. Silver ; Heroes, celebrity, and the theater in fin-de-siècle France : Cyrano de Bergerac / Venita Datta
- Conclusion. Secular anointings : fame, celebrity, and charisma in the first century of mass culture / Leo Braudy.