Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture

Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity CultureArgues that Byron's popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity. Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture argues that Byron's popularity, particularly among women, marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural industry. For nearly two hundred years, Romantic criticism has maintained distinctions between Byron the politically engaged poet and Byron the object of obsessive feminine adulation, or "Byromania." Ghislaine

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