Format:
1 Online-Ressource (275 pages)
ISBN:
9781317016304
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Bestsellers of the French Revolution, or, Why Sentimentality Dominated the Revolutionary Stage: Four Case Studies (La Mère coupable, Le Déserteur, Fénelon, and Les Deux petits savoyards) -- 2 Revolutionary Tableaux: Diderot, David, and the Sentimental Frame of Politics -- 3 Sentimental Vows and the Affective Bonds of Social Contract: National and Private Theatricals in Collot d'Herbois's La Famille Patriote (1790) -- 4 Virtue's Proofs: Paméla on Stage and on Trial during the Terror -- 5 Virtuous Citizen, Suffering Father: Voltaire's Brutus and the Sentimentalization of Political Tragedy -- 6 Acting Revolution: Talma and the Sentimental Body -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
9781409411635
Additional Edition:
Print version Feilla, Cecilia The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution London : Taylor and Francis,c2016 9781409411635
Language:
English
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