Constructing Charisma (eBook)

Edward Berenson is Professor of History and French Studies and Director of the Institute of French Studies at New York University. His numerous publications include The Trial of Madame Caillaux (University of California Press 1992), Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and Europe's Quest for Africa, (University of California Press 2010) and The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story (Yale University Press 2012).

Eva Giloi is Associate Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of Monarchy, Myth, and Material Culture in Germany 1750-1950 (Cambridge University Press 2011).

Introduction
Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi

Part I: Constructing Charisma

Chapter 1. “Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914.”
Edward Berenson

Chapter 2. “‘So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword’: Autograph-hunting and Royal Charisma in the German Empire, 1861-1888.”
Eva Giloi

Chapter 3. “The Workings of Royal Celebrity: Wilhelm II as Media Emperor.”
Martin Kohlrausch

Part II: Celebrity as Performance

Chapter 4. “From the Top: Liszt’s Aristocratic Airs.”
Dana Gooley

Chapter 5. “Celebrity Gifting: Mallarmé and the Poetics of Fame.”
Emily Apter

Chapter 6. “Rethinking Female Celebrity: The Eccentric Star of Nineteenth-Century France.”
Mary Louise Roberts

Part III: The Politics of Fame

Chapter 7. “Byron, Death, and the Afterlife.”
Stephen Minta

Chapter 8. “The Historical Actor.”
Peter Fritzsche

Chapter 9. “Celebrity, Patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt.”
Kenneth E. Silver

Chapter 10. “Heroes, Celebrity and the Theater in Fin-de-Siècle France: Cyrano de Bergerac.”
Venita Datta

Conclusion: “Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture.
Leo Braudy