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Every Man His Own M...
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Haffenden, ChrisUppsala universitet,Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria
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Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain
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Uppsala :Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis,2018
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263 s.
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:uu-361353
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ISBN:9789151304519
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-361353URI
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Språk:engelska
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Sammanfattning på:engelska
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Uppsala Studies in History of Ideas,1653-5197 ;50
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From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. Positioning these practices at the intersection of emergent national pantheons, a modern conception of history, and a newly-formed celebrity culture, I argue that this period witnessed the birth of distinctively modern ways for the individual to make immortality. Faced with a visceral fear of being forgotten, public figures began borrowing from celebrity culture to make their own monuments.Concentrated upon early nineteenth-century London, I characterize these practices as attempts at self-made immortality. I do so by analyzing the legacy projects of three well-known but seldom connected individuals: the Auto-Icon by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the Soane Museum by the architect Sir John Soane (1753–1837), and the life-writing efforts of the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846). Employing both sociological and materialist frameworks to analyze the making of immortality, I contend that these projects were characteristic of a novel regime for the production of lasting renown. Whereas earlier scholarship on Romantic recognition has tended to focus either on mass-media celebrity or the longer history of canon-formation, I highlight the interactions of celebrity and monument embodied in entrepreneurial efforts to secure future recognition.In Every Man His Own Monument, I demonstrate how a constellation of media forms and recording practices we now take for granted—the statuary figure, the house museum, and the published Life—assumed a central place within a new memorial regime. Bringing the historical roots of self-monumentalizing individuals to light, this study contributes to discussions both within the History of Celebrity and Cultural Memory Studies, and to broader debates regarding our Instagram-saturated present.
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Lundgren, Frans,DocentUppsala universitet,Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria
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Josephson, Peter,Dr.Södertörn University
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Matthews, Samantha,Dr.Bristol University, UK
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Uppsala universitetInstitutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria
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