Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNora Nachumi and Kristina StraubPART IREPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte CharkeStuart Sherman2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth CenturySemane Parsons3 Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic SatireHeather McPhersonPART IIMARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible CelebritySören Hammerschmidt5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to TodayKevin Bourque6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal CelebrityGlynis RidleyPART IIILIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland¿s Quest for Anonymous CelebrityJack Lynch8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public AdjudicationElaine McGirr9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of StrathmoreSarah AilwoodPART IVTHE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des PrincesAnne Betty Weinshenker11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret HistoryRebecca Tierney-Hynes12 The Everyday Celebrity of ¿Sir¿ Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of GarratMiriam WallacePART VWHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?13 A ¿Universally Sorrowful Sensation¿: National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte AugustaTeri Doerksen14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary BlandyKirsten T. Saxton15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of CelebrityJane WesselNotes on ContributorsIndex