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portada The Celebrity: A Gilded Age Social Satire of Literary Fame, Mistaken Identity, and High-Society Courtship at a Summer Lake Resort (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Editorial
Idioma
Inglés
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
Dimensiones
22.9x15.2x0.6 cm
ISBN13
9788028340971

The Celebrity: A Gilded Age Social Satire of Literary Fame, Mistaken Identity, and High-Society Courtship at a Summer Lake Resort (en Inglés)

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The Celebrity is a brisk, ironic novel of manners that examines the manufacture of public reputation in late-nineteenth-century America. Framed through a witty observer's account of a fashionable summer milieu, the book follows a literary "celebrity" whose charm, vanity, and evasions expose the fragile boundary between authentic character and social performance. Churchill writes in a polished realist mode, indebted to the comic social observation of the Gilded Age, yet his satire anticipates modern anxieties about publicity, branding, and the self as spectacle. Its author is Winston Churchill (1871-1947), the American novelist often confused with the British statesman of the same name. Educated at the United States Naval Academy and later active in politics, Churchill brought to fiction a keen interest in ambition, class mobility, civic life, and the moral compromises of success. The Celebrity, an early work, reflects his familiarity with elite social circles and his skepticism toward reputations built by fashion rather than substance. Readers interested in American realism, social satire, or the history of celebrity culture will find this novel both entertaining and surprisingly prescient. It is recommended as a sharp, elegant study of charm, imposture, and public illusion.

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