The Invention of Celebrity by Antoine Lilti

The Invention of Celebrity

Antoine Lilti with Lynn Jeffress (Translator)

320 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, y...

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