Spectacular Disappearances

Julia H. Fawcett

earliest edition we have, 2016 University of Michigan Press, 2016

"How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange and spectacular self-representations. They include the enormous wig that actor Colley Cibber donned in his comic role as...

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Spectacular Disappearances hardcover · 2016 · University of Michigan Press · 304 pages · 9780472119806
Spectacular Disappearances edition · 2016 · University of Michigan Press · 9780472900619
Spectacular Disappearances edition · 2016 · University of Michigan Press · 304 pages · 9780472121809

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