The sentimental theatre of the French Revolution: performing virtue
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Main Author: Feilla, Cecilia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington, VT Ashgate c2013
Series:Performance in the long eighteenth century
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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) -- Revolutionary tableaux: Diderot, David, and the sentimental frame of politics -- Sentimental vows and the affective bonds of social contract: national and private theatricals in Collot d'Herbois's La famille patriote -- Virtue's proofs: Paméla on stage and on trial during the terror -- Virtuous citizen, suffering father: Voltaire's Brutus and the sentimentalization of political tragedy -- Acting revolution: Talma and the sentimental body
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9781409411642
1409411648
9781409411635
140941163X

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