Garrick's Body and the Labor of Art in Eighteenth-Century Theater

Sechelski, Denise S.

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“…But the volume is not yet a study of Garrick’s celebrity . Those who extend biography to analyze celebrity include Denise Sechelski who identifies Garrick as ‘culturally multivalent’ (372), involved with the ‘low’ theater world as well as with aristocratic circles, and Peter Thomson, who unpacks the commonplace of Garrick’s rivalry with James Quin to show how each nurtured his popularity differently in the theatrical space of the time. Other pieces exist, but a study of Garrick‐as‐celebrity (yet to be written) would address his ambitious rise to prominence in acting (how individual effort – a main component in heroic ‘fame’– contributes to celebrity); the fortuitousness of his managerial opportunities (how business arrangements contribute to celebrity); his regulation of his image through choices of roles, writing, and self‐presentation in the press; his responses to audiences in theaters and in private life; and the mechanics of circulation: what was published about him, by whom, and why; how friends, colleagues, and patrons adjusted his image; how his image related to those of others (Shakespeare, female co‐stars, royalty); what was done, consciously or not, with his image; and even how earlier Garrick images ghosted later ones.…”

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Celebrity Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Overview

Wanko

2011

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The work done to date on the development of celebrity culture in the long 18th century ranges across fields as diverse as theater and criminology, art and boxing, and music and oral culture, as scholars examine how celebrity operates within discrete segments of the public sphere as well as across them. Celebrity studies is more than a simple description of a star’s popularity. Instead, it examines how personal, social, media, political, and economic events create local conditions of popularity, how a celebrity’s popular images circulate within a culture, and what the celebrity means to a culture; it also traces how concepts of merit and fame change over time. Individual studies of celebrities and the fans, audiences, and readers who admire them are joined by interdisciplinary studies that best capture the breadth of celebrity’s foundations and effects.

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Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770

Gordon

2002

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Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing. This tradition - which Scott Paul Gordon locates in seventeenth-century religious discourse, in early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, in mid eighteenth-century acting theory, and in the emergent novel - resists autonomy and defers agency from the individual to an external 'prompter'. Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one's own interest. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas from their roots in the non-conformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

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Garrick's Body and the Labor of Art in Eighteenth-Century Theater

Cited by 58 publications

References 20 publications

Celebrity Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Overview

Celebrity Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Overview

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The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770

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