An edition of The frenzy of renown (1986)

The Frenzy of Renown

Fame and Its History

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An edition of The frenzy of renown (1986)

The Frenzy of Renown

Fame and 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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Oxford University Press
Language
English
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674

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Fame, Sociology

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Cover of: The Frenzy of Renown
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
January 2001, Replica Books
Hardcover in English
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1997, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1986, Oxford University Press
in English
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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
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""What is honor?" asked Falstaff and answered "a word.""

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OL7386524M
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frenzyofrenownfa00brau
ISBN 10
0195051785
ISBN 13
9780195051780
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233810339
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357220
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2883934

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