The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
by Braudy, Leo
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0195040031
- ISBN 13
- 9780195040036
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x10. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light tanning to edges. Pages unmarked. <br> "Analyzes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, and P.T. Barnum." <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University
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- Bookseller
- SequiturBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2306090040
- Title
- The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
- Author
- Braudy, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195040031
- ISBN 13
- 9780195040036
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 6x0x10
- X weight
- 42 oz
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