Search Results - "The Stage"

The Total Work of Art in European Modernism / by Roberts, David, 1937-

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Theater Figures : The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel / by Allen, Emily, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical reforms: Stage fright and the scene of reading -- Staging a comeback: The remasculinization of the novel -- Heimlich maneuvers: Domesticity, theatricality, and the abject -- Mesdames Bovary: Performative reading, cultural capital, and high art -- Performing distinction: Elevating the literary sphere.…”
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Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia / by Meer, Arnout van der, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /

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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

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