An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of soci

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two count

Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes

"Published in association with BSECS, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies"