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03791aam a22004818i 4500 001 D60D6FB096FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230118010046 008 220419s2022 iau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022015042 020 $a 1609388615 020 $a 9781609388614 035 $a (OCoLC)1345466624 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1650.T78 $b B37 2022 082 00 $a 809.2/93561 $2 23/eng/20220921 100 1 $a Barker, Roberta, $e author. 245 10 $a Symptoms of the self : $b tuberculosis and the making of the modern stage / $c by Roberta Barker. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 295 pages : $b illustrations ; 23 cm. 490 0 $a Studies in theatre history and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of one of the most paradoxically popular figures in transatlantic theatre history: the stage consumptive. Consumption, or tuberculosis, remains one of the world's most deadly epidemic diseases; in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, it was a leading killer, responsible for the deaths of as many as one in four members of the population. Despite-or perhaps because of-their horrific experiences of tubercular mortality, throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century audiences in these same countries flocked to see consumptive characters love, suffer, and die onstage. Beginning with the origins of the stage consumptive in Romantic-era France and ranging through to the queer theatres of New York City in the 1970s, this book explores famous plays such as La dame aux cameÌlias (Camille) and Uncle Tom's Cabin alongside rediscovered sentimental dramas, frontier melodramas, and naturalistic problem plays. It shows how theatre artists used the symptoms of tuberculosis to perform the inward emotions and experiences of the modern self, and how the new theatrical vocabulary of realism emerged out of the innovations of the sentimental stage. In the theatre, the consumptive character became a vehicle through which-for better and for worse-standards of health, beauty, and virtue were imposed; constructions of class, gender, and sexuality were debated; the boundaries of nationhood were transgressed or maintained; and an exceedingly fragile whiteness was held up as a dominant social ideal. By telling the story of tuberculosis on the transatlantic stage, Symptoms of the Self aims to uncover some of the wellsprings of modern Western theatrical practice-and of ideas about the self that still affect the way human beings live and die"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Tuberculosis in literature. 650 0 $a Sick in literature. 650 0 $a Theater $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Theater $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. 650 0 $a Drama $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Drama $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852295 650 7 $a Drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00897468 650 7 $a Sick in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01118080 650 7 $a Theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149217 650 7 $a Tuberculosis in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01158569 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a University of Iowa Press, $e donor. $e donor. $5 IaU 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D60D6FB096FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search