Polly Peachum and the Aristocrats: Celebrity, Class, and Gender in the Early Eighteenth Century

IF 0.4 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1353/ecs.2024.a916853

Uri Erman

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Abstract

Abstract: The unparalleled success of The Beggar's Opera created a certain discrepancy; while the work was highly critical of the social and political elite, the actress who created the role of Polly Peachum, Lavinia Fenton, was routinely associated with a string of aristocrats. This article examines the resulting struggle over Fenton's presumed emotional and political attachments. By analyzing female celebrity through the prism of class, I argue that this struggle had placed the actress, and her relations with aristocratic men, as a central emblem of the contemporary revaluation of social status.

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波莉-皮丘姆与贵族：十八世纪早期的名人、阶级和性别

摘要：《乞丐歌剧》的空前成功造成了某种差异；虽然这部作品对社会和政治精英进行了强烈批判，但饰演波莉-皮秋姆的女演员拉维尼娅-芬顿却经常与一连串贵族联系在一起。本文探讨了由此引发的芬顿假定的情感和政治依附之争。通过从阶级的角度分析女性名人，我认为这场斗争使这位女演员及其与贵族男性的关系成为当代重估社会地位的核心标志。

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.