The Feminization of Fame 1750–1830

1. Introduction: Feminizing Fame
Claire Brock

2. ‘A New Sort of Glory’: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ‘little philosophical chemistry’ and the Reach of Rousseauvian Fame in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Claire Brock

3. Catharine Macaulay: ‘triumph[ant], when alive, o’er future fate’
Claire Brock

4. Mary Robinson and the ‘splendour of a name’
Claire Brock

5. Inflating Frances Burney
Claire Brock

6. Germaine de Staël: ‘When one can no longer find peace of mind in obscurity, it is necessary to look for strength in celebrity’
Claire Brock

7. William Hazlitt, On Being Brilliant: The Spirit of the Age
Claire Brock

8. Afterword
Claire Brock

Keywords: History, Cultural History, European History, Modern History, Literature, general, History of Britain and Ireland, History of France