"A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public expression. . . ."—Robert Lekachman, Saturd
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English Year 1996
Table of contents :
Content: The public domain --
Roles --
The audience : a gathering of strangers --
Public roles --
Public and private --
Man as actor --
The impact of industrial capitalism on public life --
Personality in public --
The public men of the 19th century --
Collective personality --
The end of public culture --
Charisma becomes uncivilized --
Community becomes uncivilized --
The actor deprived of his art --
The tyrannies of intimacy.