Transgressive Theatricality, Romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft - Lisa Plummer Crafton

Transgressive Theatricality, Romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft

Buch | Softcover
162 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92961-3 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Lisa Plummer Crafton argues that, throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft engages with early Romantic notions of the theatrical and contributes to contemporary debates on theater. Within the context of the political discourse of the French Revolution, juridical transcripts of treason and civil divorce trials, and the spectacle of the female actre
Throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft interrogates and represents the connected network of theater, culture, and self-representation, in what Lisa Plummer Crafton argues is a conscious appropriation of theater in its literal, cultural, and figurative dimensions. Situating Wollstonecraft within early Romantic debates about theatricality, she explores Wollstonecraft's appropriation of, immersion in, and contributions to these debates within the contexts of philosophical arguments about the utility of theater and spectacle; the political discourse of the French Revolution; juridical transcripts of treason and civil divorce trials; and the spectacle of the female actress in performance, as typified by Sarah Siddons and her compelling connections to Wollstonecraft on and off stage. As she considers Wollstonecraft's contributions to competing notions of the theatrical, from the writer's earliest literary reviews and translations through her histories, correspondence, nonfiction, and novels, Crafton traces the trajectory of Wollstonecraft's conscious appropriation of the trope and her emphasis on theatricality's transgressive potential for self-invention. Crafton's book, the first wide-ranging study of theatricality in the works of Wollstonecraft, is an important contribution to current reconsiderations of the earlier received wisdom about Romantic anti-theatricality, to historicist revisions of the performance and theory of Sarah Siddons, and to theories of spectacle and gender.

Lisa Plummer Crafton is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the editor of The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture and is the author of numerous articles on Wollstonecraft and Blake.

Introduction, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 1 Wollstonecraft and Romantic (Anti) Theatricality, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 2 “Stage Effect”: Transgressive Theatricality in Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 3 Becoming a “Sign-post”: Ethics and Theater, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 4 “The subterfuge of law”: Theatricality and Juridical Discourse, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 5 “The gallery is in place of the house”: The French Revolution and State Theater, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 6 Retaliatory Self-Invention: Siddons, Wollstonecraft, and Theatricality, Lisa Plummer Crafton;

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 299 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-92961-8 / 1032929618
ISBN-13 978-1-032-92961-3 / 9781032929613
Zustand Neuware
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