The Invention of Celebrity by Antoine Lilti

The Invention of Celebrity

Antoine Lilti

320 pages 2014

5 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this illuminating new book cultural historian Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the...

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