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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

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Staging Governance : Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration / by Haltof, Marek

Table of Contents: “…The Auschwitz-Birkenau number 43513 -- "Stalin was moved to tears" : the script -- Return to Auschwitz : the making of the Holocaust classic -- The film and its reception -- Fighting Auschwitz : the heroic account of the camp -- Representation of the Holocaust in the last stage -- The legacy of Wanda Jakubowska.…”
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The Theater of Narration : From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy / by Guzzetta, Juliet

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Shakespeare and Canada : Remembrance of Ourselves by Brisset, Annie

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history Canada.…”
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Charles Peirce's Theory of Scientific Method by Francis E. Reilly

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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I -- ADRIÃ#x8B;NNE SOLSER; Adriñnne Solser on the Dutch Popular Stage; Adriñnne Solser and the Dutch Silent Cinema; PART II -- MUSIDORA; Musidora on the French Popular Stage; Musidora and the French Silent Cinema; PART III -- NELL SHIPMAN; Nell Shipman on the American Popular Stage; Nell Shipman and the American Silent Cinema; In Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Career Overviews; Acknowledgements; Illustration Credits; Index.…”
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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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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

Table of Contents: “…Playing dead -- Staging death -- Disposing the dead -- Disposing the dead? …”
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Persistence of Folly : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / by Lande, Joel B.

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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution / by Nelson, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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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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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education / by Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Unstable as water -- "Mechanical sheep" and "monstrous powers" : John Ruskin's pantomime reality -- "Pretty Frou-Frou" goes demon dancing : performing species and gender in Ruskin's science -- Playground and playhouse : identity performance in Ruskin's education for girls -- Ruskin and the Wilde life : self and other on the millennial stage -- Conclusion : queering Ruskin.…”
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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Joyce : The Return of the Repressed / by Friedman, Susan Stanford

Table of Contents: “…(Self)censorship and the making of Joyce's modernism / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Pharmaconomy / Alberto Moreiras -- Uncanny returns in "The dead" / Robert Spoo -- A portrait of the romantic poet as a young modernist / Jay Clayton -- Simon's Irish rose / Richard Pearce -- Races and chains / Laura Doyle -- Staging sexuality / Joseph A. Boone -- The preservation of tenderness / Marilyn L. …”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Culture, criticism, theory since 1990 / Scott Brewster -- Home places: Irish Drama since 1990 / Clare Wallace and Ondřej Pílný -- Women on stage in the 1990s: foregrounding the body and performance in plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr / Mária Kurdi -- The stuff of tragedy? …”
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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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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama / by Freer, Coburn

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