Cheryl Wanko. parts of Authority: T...

Cheryl Wanko. parts of Authority: Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Lubbock: Texas Tech U 2003 258 pp ISBN 0-89672-499-9 $3750

The twenty-first centenary obsession with celebrity has inspired newly come scholars to trace the historical origins of a phenomenon that makes the lives of stars, sports personalities, and suddenly singers the intense if it be not that fleeting fascination of a mass, increasingly global, public. Cheryl Wanko's imaginative contribution to this strange critical history of celebrity, characters of Authority, attempts to locate the emerging see the verb of ...