A Short History of Celebrity

by Fred Inglis

Book Overview

A history of celebrity from Byron to Beckham

Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691135622
• ISBN13: 9780691135625
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"