The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830

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.

Author: C. Brock
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/11/2006
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.74w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781403989918

About the Author
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.