[eBook Code] The Invention of Celebrity (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments
Introduction - Celebrity and Modernity

Chapter 1 - Voltaire in Paris
“The Most Famous Man in Europe"
Voltaire and Janot

Chapter 2 - Society of the Spectacle
The Birth of Stars: The Economics of Celebrity
Scandal at the Opera
“Something Idolatrous”
A European Celebrity
The Invention of the Fan(atic)

Chapter 3 - A First Media Revolution
The Visual Culture of Celebrity
Public Figurines
Idols and Marionettes
“Heroes of the Hour”
Private Lives, Public Figures

Chapter 4 - From Glory to Celebrity
Trumpeting Fame
Conceptualizing Celebrity
Celebrity
“Chastisement for Merit”

Chapter 5 - Loneliness of the Celebrity
“The Celebrity of Misfortune”
Friend Jean-Jacques
Eccentricity, Exemplarity, Celebrity
The Burden of Celebrity
Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques
The Disfiguration

Chapter 6 - The Power of Celebrity
A Fashion Victim?
Revolutionary Popularity
The President is a Great Man
Sunset Island

Chapter 7 - Romanticism and Celebrity
Byromania
Prestige and obligations
Women Seduced and Public Women
Virtuosos
Celebrity in America
Democratic Popularity and Popular Sovereignty
“Celebrities of the Hour”
Towards a New Age of Celebrity
Conclusion
Postface to the English edition
Notes
Illustration credits
Index