Transgressive theatricality, romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft
By: by Lisa Plummer
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780754667889
Subjects: Theater and society; Performing arts in literature; Theater in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Romanticism; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Wollstonecraft and romantic (anti) theatricality; title: "Stage effect": transgressive theatricality in Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman; or Maria; title: Becoming a "sign-post": ethics and theater; title: "The subterfuge of law": theatricality and juridical discourse; title: "The gallery is in the place of the house": the French revolution and state theater; title: Retaliatory self-invention: Siddons, Wollstonecraft, and theatricality.