The public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality. But it also liberates us from the bondages of private life and fosters a vital aesthetic experience.

In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the ...

This book explores encounters between marginalized people and states to better understand the contours of social controversy and social transformation borne from conflict.

Boyd Hilton examines the changes in society between 1783-1846 and the transformations from raffish and rakish behaviour to the new norms of Victorian respectability.

First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history.

This volume examines whether the "public sphere" remains a central explanatory model in the social sciences, political theory, and the humanities.

This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity.

This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption offers a timely overview of how our understanding of consumption in history has changed in the last generation, taking the reader from the ancient period to the twenty-first century.