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Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility: A Historical-Comparative Study of the British, French, and Polish Examples, C. 1770-1830

Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility: A Historical-Comparative Study of the British, French, and Polish Examples, C. 1770-1830

Wesolowski, Adrian

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032373873
ISBN13: 9781032373874
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2023
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and philanthropists started being considered as a distinct breed of public figures.

In its search for the cause of this development, it examines the way in which public images of early philanthropists in different parts of Europe were shaped in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The work draws on a comparison between British prison reformer John Howard, Alsatian pastor and humanitarian Jean-Frédéric Oberlin, and Stanislaw Staszic, a key figure of Enlightenment politics in Congress Poland. Revealing parallel mechanisms at play in different national contexts, it argues that famous philanthropists ushered in a new genre of fame, 'philanthropic celebrity', that placed Enlightenment ideals about virtue within the framework of early celebrity culture.

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