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The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer

The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...

Did the publication of Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of...

Louis XIV saw himself as a patron of the arts...

The way in which the three major nightly television newscasts...

Dr Dubiau-Feuillerac argues that Debussy was attracted to Paul Verlaine’s...

In 1746 the great Venetian artist, Canaletto, moved to London...

What do we mean by ‘reading for pleasure’? Why has...

Professor George Pattison examines a number of works in light...

Infamous rake (and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Francis Dashwood...

The Second World War intensified and magnified debates that had...