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Knowing the Performer from the Performance: Fame, Celebrity, and Literary Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Leo Braudy
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In 1986, when the frenzy of renown was first published, let alone in the 1970s, when I first started working on it, little did I know that a few decades later fame and its history would be a subject of expanding academic study. After all, when I was in the midst of writing it, I was told by my agent that I had better hurry up and finish before no one was interested in fame anymore.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 126 , Issue 4: Special Topic: Celebrity, Fame, Notoriety , October 2011 , pp. 1070 - 1075
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2011

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