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Book at Lunchtime: Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania

An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century.
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David Garrick's Wigless Celebrity

Ruth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany
The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli

Pegasus and Carthorse: The Many Shades of Disraeli’s Celebrity

Sandra Mayer assesses the intersections of literary and political fame in Disraeli’s public image.

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