Theatres of feeling : affect, performance, and the eighteenth-century stage / Jean I. Marsden.
Theatres of feeling : affect, performance, and the eighteenth-century stage / Jean I. Marsden.
Theatres of feeling : affect, performance, and the eighteenth-century stage / Jean I. Marsden.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/4247
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English
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xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Divine sympathy : theatre, connection, and virtue -- Dangerous pleasures : theatregoing in the eighteenth century -- Roman fathers and Grecian daughters : tragedy and the nation -- Performing the West Indies : comedy, feeling, and British identity -- The moral muse : comedy as social engineering.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"Historicizing affect provides an important register of cultural developments, and because of this link between theatre and culture, explorations of performance as well as affect have turned to the work of Raymond Williams, in particular to his discussion of 'structures of feelings,' as a means of approaching the complex operation of emotion and th...
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Theatres of feeling : affect, performance, and the eighteenth-century stage / Jean I. Marsden.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9781108759717
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G 2019/4247
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74VKVlErqDlg
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9781108476133 hardcover alkaline paper
1108476139 hardcover alkaline paper
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820.9353
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991024262505602626
