How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar; but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages; pages; and streets of eighteenth-century London as Englands first modern celebrities performed their own strange and spectacular self-representations. They include the enormous wig that actor Colley Cibber donned in his comic role as Lord Foppington--and that later reappeared on the head of Cibbers cross-dressing daughter; Charlotte Charke. They include the black page of Tristram Shandy; a memorial to the parson Yorick (and author Laurence Sterne); a page so full of ink that it cannot be read. And they include the puffs and prologues that David Garrick used to heighten his publicity while protecting his privacy; the epistolary autobiography; modeled on the sentimental novel; of Garricks proteacute;geacute;e George Anne Bellamy; and the elliptical poems and portraits of the poet; actress; and royal courtesan Mary Robinson; a.k.a. Perdita.
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