This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industr

This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.

A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that ex

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.