Catherine the Great and the culture of celebrity in the eighteenth century / Ruth Pritchard Dawson.

"This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fa...

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Main Author: Dawson, Ruth P., 1943- (Author)
Other title:Catherine the Great and the culture of celebrity in the 18th century.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Series:Cultures of early modern Europe.
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