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Author:

Feilla, Cecilia.

Title:

The sentimental theatre of the French Revolution / Cecilia Feilla.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Theater--France--History--18th century.
Books and reading--France--History--18th century.
Theater--Moral and ethical aspects--France.
Politics and literature--France--History--18th century.
France--Influence.--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The bestsellers of the French Revolution, or, Why sentimentality dominated the revolutionary stage: four case studies (la m©·re coupable, le d©♭serteur, f©♭nelon, 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: Pam©♭la 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.

Series:

Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance

ISBN:

1409411648 (ebook)
9781409411642 (ebook)
140941163X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409411635 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)808930408

LCCN:

2012033176

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)