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Intro; Editors' Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Works Cited; Part I Theatre; Nell Gwyn's Breasts and Colley Cibber's Shirts: Celebrity Actors and Their Famous "Parts"; Nell Gwyn: "The Protestant Whore"; Colley Cibber: More Than a Nice W[h]ig; Works Cited; Anne Oldfield's Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity; Reconstructing Oldfield's Domestic Interiors; The Auction as Fashionable Spectacle; Conclusion; Works Cited; "Peeping" and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivre's The Busy Body (1709).

Economics, Actresses and PlaywrightsThe Busy Body and Contemporary London Celebrity Spotting; The Art of Peeping and Public Intimacy; Miranda (Peeping); Works Cited; Garrick, Dying; The Stage; Offstage; The Grave; Conclusion; Works Cited; Part II Politics; Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain; Political Celebrity; Saint Sacheverell?; Works Cited; Farcical Politics: Fielding's Public Emotion; Works Cited; "A Man in Love": Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century; Works Cited; Part III Authorship.

"The ARMS of Friendship": John Dunton's Platonic AcquisitionsWorks Cited; "I Make a Very Shining Figure": Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Intimate Publicity of Authorship; Works Cited; Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture; Imposters and Celebrities in Eighteenth-Century London; "Looked Upon as a Gentlewoman": The Career of Harriet Elizabeth Grieve; Satire and Celebrity: Verse and Stage Retellings; Works Cited; Part IV Intimate Notoriety: A Case Study.

Notoriety's Public Interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at RanelaghGarrick's Uncanny Intuition; The Celebrity's Charismata, Stigmata, and Disgraziamata; Hill's Vulnerability, Performativity, and Theatricality; Notoriety's Narrative Interiors; Totemic Symbols and Cultural Unification in Celebrity Societies; Cowardice Courting Disgrace and Fostering Notoriety; Notoriety's Public Interiors; Appendix; Works Cited; Epilogue: Body Double-Katharine Hepburn at Madame Tussauds; Works Cited; Index.

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