Search Results - "The Stage"

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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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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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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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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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama / by Freer, Coburn

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Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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

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Luminol Theory by Joyce, Laura E.

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

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