The Egyptian heaven and hell /

Includes index.

Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /

How can the modern individual control his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching? This question is a familiar one amid the the twenty-first century's architecture of 24-hour newsrooms, chat rooms and interrogation rooms, but this book traces this question back to the stages, the pages, and the streets of eighteenth-century London--and to the strange and spectacular self-representations performed there by England's first modern celebrities. These self-representations include the enormous wig that the actor, manager, and playwright Colley Cibber donned in his most famous comic role as Lord Foppington--and that later reappeared on the head of Cibber's cross-dressing daughter, Charlotte Charke. They include the black page of 'Tristram Shandy,' a memorial to the parson Yorick (and his author Laurence Sterne), a page so full of ink that it cannot be read. And they include the puffs and prologues that David Garrick used to hiehgten his publicity while protecting his privacy; the epistolary autobiography, modeled on the sentimental novel, of Garrick's protégée George Anne Bellamy; and the elliptical poems and portraits of the poet, actress, and royal courtesan Mary Robinson, known throughout her life as Perdita. Linking all of these representations is a quality that Fawcett terms "over-expression." 'Spectacular Disappearances' theorizes over-expression as the unique quality that allows celebrities to meet their spectators' demands for disclosure without giving themselves away. Like a spotlight so brilliant it is blinding, these exaggerated but illegible self-representations suggest a new way of understanding some of the key aspects of celebrity culture, both in the eighteenth century and today. They also challenge many of the disciplinary divides between theatrical character and novelistic character in eighteenth-century studies, or between performance studies and literary studies today. Drawing on a wide variety of materials and methodologies, 'Spectacular Disappearances' provides an overlooked but indispensable history for scholars and students of celebrity studies, performance studies, and autobiography--as well as to anyone curious about the origins of the eighteenth-century self.

A guide to federal and state assistance for business in Illinois /

"May 1980."

A Governor's conference on science and technology in Illinois : proceedings of the 15th annual ENR conference, September 3 and 4, 1986, Chicago, Illinois.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Alternative energy in the Midwest : research and applications : conference proceedings, March 19-20, 1987, Rosemont, Illinois /

"Printed: December 1987."

Aftermarket catalytic convertors : guide to their purchase, installation, and use /

"January 1989."

Assessed valuations and tax rates:

Mode of access: Internet.

Budgetary standards and practices in Illinois during October 1938.

"Study ... made at the request of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission. The Illinois data ... were collected by the Division of Certification and Service, and the report has been prepared by the Division of Allocations and Statistics."

Casualty report and recommendations.

Mode of access: Internet.

Earned time program : annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly /

Report for 1996 covers the results of the program for FY94, FY95, and FY96.

Facts on funds : a guide to appropriated and non-appropriated funds of the Illinois Treasury /

Includes citations for 703 funds, of which 568 are appropriated and 135 are non-appropriated funds for FY 2005 and 2006.

Late Quaternary mammalian biogeography and environments of the Great Plains and prairies /

Includes bibliographies and index.

Management audit boards and commissions.

"September 2011."

Mississippi River crossing : relocated I-70 and I-64 connector : draft environmental impact statement/section 4(f) evaluation /

"Submitted pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(c) by the U. S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and the Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation."--Prelim. page.

Native and introduced grasses in Illinois.

Cover title.