书本目录:
  • Introduction
  • The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness
  • The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender
  • The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character
  • The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor
  • The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression
  • Coda: overexpression and its legacy.