Revolutionary Acts - Susan Maslan

Revolutionary Acts

Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2015
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-1694-6 (ISBN)
32,95 inkl. MwSt
In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the newly emerging democracy. Examining the production, performance, and reception of Parisian plays between 1789 and 1794, Maslan sheds new light on two issues central to the political cultures of Paris and France: the nature of political representation-specifically the problematic relationship between direct democracy and representative democracy-and the correlative problem of transparency and its relation to theatricality. While traditional scholarship emphasizes the influence of newspapers and books on the French Revolution, Maslan's erudite analysis reveals the rich and powerful impact of theater on France's fledgling democracy.

Susan Maslan is an associate professor of French at the University of California-Berkeley.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Resisting Representation
2. The Comic Revolution
3. Robespierre's Eye
4. The Home and the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.4.2015
Reihe/Serie Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
Zusatzinfo 15 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Baltimore, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10 1-4214-1694-8 / 1421416948
ISBN-13 978-1-4214-1694-6 / 9781421416946
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