Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Greg Jenner

400 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry ...

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