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- catalog abstract "Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.".
- catalog contributor b668478.
- catalog created "1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1986.".
- catalog description "Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part One. The urge to be unique -- Introduction -- Above it all : Lindbergh and Hemingway -- The longing of Alexander -- Part Two. The destiny of Rome -- Public mean and the fall of the Roman Republic -- The authority of Augustus -- Part Three. The emptiness of public fame -- The unesasy truce : Authority and authorship -- Christianity and the fame of the spirit -- Part Four. The intercession of art -- The imagery of invisible power -- The intermediary and his audience -- Primting and portraiture : The dissemination of the unique -- Part Five. The democratization of fame -- From monarchs to individualists -- The posture of reticence and the sanction of neglect -- Democratic theater and the natural performer -- Conclusion : The dream of acceptability.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 649 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Frenzy of renown.".
- catalog identifier "0195040031".
- catalog isFormatOf "Frenzy of renown.".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Frenzy of renown.".
- catalog subject "BJ1470.5 .B73 1986".
- catalog subject "Fame.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part One. The urge to be unique -- Introduction -- Above it all : Lindbergh and Hemingway -- The longing of Alexander -- Part Two. The destiny of Rome -- Public mean and the fall of the Roman Republic -- The authority of Augustus -- Part Three. The emptiness of public fame -- The unesasy truce : Authority and authorship -- Christianity and the fame of the spirit -- Part Four. The intercession of art -- The imagery of invisible power -- The intermediary and his audience -- Primting and portraiture : The dissemination of the unique -- Part Five. The democratization of fame -- From monarchs to individualists -- The posture of reticence and the sanction of neglect -- Democratic theater and the natural performer -- Conclusion : The dream of acceptability.".
- catalog title "The frenzy of renown : fame and its history / Leo Braudy.".
- catalog type "text".