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Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bucknell Univ Pr
Publication date
December 3, 2015
Pages
261
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611487244
ISBN-10
1611487242
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$85.00
Other format details
university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between performance and self. Innovative interpretations of La Chaussée, Rousseau, Diderot, Rétif, Beaumarchais, and others demonstrate how the figure of the actor threatened ancien régime moral hierarchies by decoupling affect from emotion. As acting came to be understood as an embodied practice of individual freedom, attempts to alternately perfect and repress it proliferated. Across religious diatribes and sentimental comedies, technical manuals and epistolary novels, Leichman traces the development of early modern acting theories that define the aesthetics, philosophy, and politics of the performed subject. Acting Up weaves together cultural studies, literary analysis, theater history, and performance studies to establish acting as a key conceptual model for the subject, for the Enlightenment, and for our own time.
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9781611487244 | details & prices | 261 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $85.00
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