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fame & its history

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An edition of The frenzy of renown (1986)

The frenzy of renown

fame & its history

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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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Vintage Books
Language
English
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668

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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
1986, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 619-643) and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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306.4
Library of Congress
BJ1470.5 .B73 1997, BJ1470.5.B73 1997

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xiii, 668 p. :
Number of pages
668

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OL660082M
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0679776303
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97005434
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"What is honor?" asked Falstaff and answered "a word."
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