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The Feminization of Fame 1750–1830

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286450

ISBN: 978-1-349-54234-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 8, 2015

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Introduction: Feminizing Fame

Brock, Claire

Pages: 1 –14

[Fame is fickle, flirtatious and eternally female. The famed are always men; women have been relegated to occasional footnotes in the history of fame. This book intends to redress the balance by examining a particular cultural moment, from the mid-eighteenth century to the first decades of the...
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‘A New Sort of Glory’: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ‘little philosophical chemistry’ and the Reach of Rousseauvian Fame in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Brock, Claire

Pages: 15 –45

[In 1791, Edmund Burke published A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, a companion piece and sequel to Reflections on the Revolution in France. This analysis of French political affairs post-Revolution, however, quickly became noted for its vitriolic attack upon the pernicious influence...
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Catharine Macaulay: ‘triumph[ant], when alive, o’er future fate’

Brock, Claire

Pages: 46 –76

[In her educational treatise Letters on Education (1790) Catharine Macaulay took issue with the practical efficacy of Rousseauvian fame. While acknowledging the ‘enchanting eloquence of the sagacious Rousseau’ in Émile and other writings, Macaulay lamented the chasm between theory and practice,...
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Mary Robinson and the ‘splendour of a name’

Brock, Claire

Pages: 77 –108

[On 23 March 1775, Frances Burney noted in her journal an unexpected sighting of a popular celebrity, glimpsed while out walking in the streets of London with her sister Susanna: Yesterday morning, as Susette and I were returning from Mr Burney, we met the celebrated Actress, Mrs Abington,...
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Inflating Frances Burney

Brock, Claire

Pages: 109 –136

[On 12 March 1782, the Morning Herald, a paper addicted to puffing Mary Robinson, published an anonymous poem seeking to redirect public attention to more ‘worthy’ causes of celebration.]
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Germaine de Staël: ‘When one can no longer find peace of mind in obscurity, it is necessary to look for strength in celebrity’

Brock, Claire

Pages: 137 –168

[Reminiscing three years after the death of Germaine de Staël, Henry Crabb Robinson retold a complex story of fame and desire. Desire for fame and the woes of its attendant ills were apparent in this seemingly familiar tale of seduction and seclusion, where rural innocence is corrupted by...
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William Hazlitt, On Being Brilliant: The Spirit of the Age

Brock, Claire

Pages: 169 –193

[The most intriguing feature of the publication of Germaine de Staël’s De l’Allemagne, coupled with the presence of the author at the launch in London and the reissuing of many of her other works, was the quite surprising number of literary and journalistic responses to the Staëlian oeuvre and,...
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Afterword

Brock, Claire

Pages: 194 –196

[By the 1820s a feminized fame had embedded itself firmly within the British cultural consciousness. As William Hazlitt stated in the Monthly Magazine essay ‘On Reading New Books’, the new hero was undoubtedly the author, the new audience, an educated, discriminating public: ‘[This is] an age...

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