An edition of The frenzy of renown (1986)

The frenzy of renown

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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  • 2 Have read

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
Pages
649

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Subjects

Fame, Sociology
Edition Availability
Cover of: The Frenzy of Renown
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
January 2001, Replica Books
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The frenzy of renown
The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1997, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: The frenzy of renown
The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
1986, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The Frenzy of Renown
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
1986, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The frenzy of renown
The frenzy of renown: fame & its history
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 599-623.
Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.4
Library of Congress
BJ1470.5 .B73 1986, BJ1470.5.B73 1986

The Physical Object

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

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2547721M
Internet Archive
frenzyofrenownfa0000brau
ISBN 10
0195040031
LCCN
85029659
OCLC/WorldCat
505762837, 12977462
Library Thing
357220
Goodreads
2883933

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