TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leichman,Jeffrey M.
TI  - Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
SN  - 9781611487251
AV  - PN2633.L35 2015 
U1  - 792.0944/09033 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - Theater - France - History - 18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Ch01. FROM VIRTUE TO VIRTUOSITY -- Ch02. GOOD ACTING, ACTING GOOD -- Ch03. LE PARADOXE DU RÉPUBLICAIN -- Ch04. SOVEREIGN ACTORS -- Ch05. OF CITIZENS AND SLAVES -- Ch06. OVERTHROWING ACTING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
N2  - Acting Up argues for the importance of theatrical acting to the development of modern subjectivity in Enlightenment France. Leichman weaves together literary studies, cultural studies, and performance studies, looking at the ways in which esthetic treatises, dramatic texts, religious tracts, theories of acting, political polemics, and philosophical writings consistently figure the actor and the art of portraying a character on stage as the era's most promising, and problematic, model of selfhood
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