Title: Transgressive theatricality, romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft /
Authors: Crafton, Lisa Plummer, 1956-
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Wollstonecraft, Mary, Criticism and interpretation.; Siddons, Sarah, Criticism and interpretation.; Theater and society Great Britain History; Romanticism England History; Performing arts in literature.; Theater in literature.
Contents: Introduction -- Wollstonecraft and romantic (anti) theatricality -- "Stage effect": transgressive theatricality in Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman; or Maria -- Becoming a "sign-post": ethics and theater -- "The subterfuge of law": theatricality and juridical discourse -- "The gallery is in the place of the house": the French revolution and state theater -- Retaliatory self-invention: Siddons, Wollstonecraft, and theatricality.