The author examines celebrities during Restoration and 18th-century London and how they tried to protect their privacy through the strategy of performance she calls “overexpression,” which allowed the
As the moon rises over the African Savannah, a young girl called Thembile and her father, a wildlife ranger, are out patrolling through the night on horseback. They hear the heart-rendering cries of a
The book reviews the varied cultural accomplishments during the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714), including scholarly essays on Anne, her patronage of the arts, coin collecting, poetry (especially past
