The sentimental theater of the French Revolution [electronic resource] / Cecilia Feilla
- Author:
- Feilla, Cecilia
- Published:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2013.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Access Online:
- serialssolutions.com
- Series:
- Performance in the long eighteenth century: studies in theatre, music, dance
- Restrictions on Access:
- License restrictions may limit access.
- Contents:
- The bestsellers of the French Revolution, or, Why sentimentality dominated the revolutionary stage: four case studies (la mère coupable, le déserteur, fénelon, and les deux petits savoyards) -- Revolutionary tableaux: Diderot, David, and the sentimental frame of politics -- Sentimental vows and the affective bonds of social contract: national and private theatricals in Collot d'Herbois's La famille patriote -- Virtue's proofs: Paméla on stage and on trial during the terror -- Virtuous citizen, suffering father: Voltaire's Brutus and the sentimentalization of political tragedy -- Acting revolution: Talma and the sentimental body.
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- ISBN:
- 9781409411635 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409411642 (ebook)
9781472404312 (ePUB) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.
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