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Acting Up : Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Bucknell University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611487251
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acting UpDDC classification:
  • 792.0944/09033
LOC classification:
  • PN2633.L35 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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