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The feminization of fame, 1750-1830

Fame is fickle, flirtatious and eternally female. Yet the famed are always men; women have been relegated to occasional footnotes in the history of fame. This book redresses the balance by examining the period from 1750 to 1830 when fame underwent a process of feminization, enabling women to embrace celebrity. Examining the writings and careers of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Robinson, Frances Burney, Germaine De Sta︠l and William Hazlitt, The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830 examines how fame became something other than an exclusive and exclusionary bastion of the socially privileged in this period and became, to borrow the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a form of celebrity which was 'more [one's] own', something to be achieved and enjoyed rather than as a lifetime achievement.

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