The Invention of Celebrity: 1750-1850, by Antoine Lilti translated by Lynn Jeffress (Polity, 2017).The others are more scholarly, and might use academic language sometimes, but nothing in this list is too challenging for the adventurous reader. I’ve highlighted those that are written for a popular audience. If you’re curious to know more about some of the subjects mentioned in Dead Famous, here’s a thematic selection of books I’m happy to recommend. If you’ve listened on audiobook, and you want to know the footnotes, I’ve included them too PART 1: RECOMMENDED READING FOR CURIOUS READERS PART 2: FOOTNOTES (apologies, no page references available) PART 3: FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY (apologies, this is not in alphabetical order – it’s simply the order I read stuff) RECOMMENDED READING FOR CURIOUS READERS Hello! If you’ve read my book, DEAD FAMOUS: AN UNEXPECTED HISTORY OF CELEBRITY FROM BRONZE AGE TO SILVER SCREEN, and you want to know what I read during my research, below are three different lists of references.
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