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The frenzy of renown
Leo Braudy
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An edition of The frenzy of renown (1986)

The frenzy of renown

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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.

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Subjects
Fame, Sociology

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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
January 2001, Replica Books
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1997, Vintage Books
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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
1986, Oxford University Press
in English
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1986, Oxford University Press
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
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Bibliography: p. 599-623. Includes index.

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xiii, 649 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ;
Number of pages
649

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OL21373558M
ISBN 10
0195040031
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357220
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"What is honor?" asked Falstaff and answered "a word."
added anonymously.

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