MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 02048nam a2200241Ka 4500
001 000541858-5
005 20070901091019.0
008 970416s1986 nyua f 001 0 eng d
020 $a0195040031
035 0 $aocm12977462
040 $cItFB
050 00 $aBJ1470.5$b.B73 1986
100 1 $aBraudy, Leo.
245 14 $aThe frenzy of renown :$bfame and its history /$cLeo Braudy.
260 $aNew York ;$aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c1986.
300 $axiii, 649 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart One. The urge to be unique -- Introduction -- Above it all : Lindbergh and Hemingway -- The longing of Alexander -- Part Two. The destiny of Rome -- Public mean and the fall of the Roman Republic -- The authority of Augustus -- Part Three. The emptiness of public fame -- The unesasy truce : Authority and authorship -- Christianity and the fame of the spirit -- Part Four. The intercession of art -- The imagery of invisible power -- The intermediary and his audience -- Primting and portraiture : The dissemination of the unique -- Part Five. The democratization of fame -- From monarchs to individualists -- The posture of reticence and the sanction of neglect -- Democratic theater and the natural performer -- Conclusion : The dream of acceptability.
520 $aAnalysizes 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.
650 0 $aFame.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBraudy, Leo.$tFrenzy of renown.$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1986$w(OCoLC)561278083
988 $a20020608
906 $0MH