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Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611487251
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Jeffrey M. Leichman
Serie:
Scènes Francophones
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Acting Up argues for the importance of theatrical acting to the development of modern subjectivity in Enlightenment France. Leichman weaves together literary studies, cultural studies, and performance studies, looking at the ways in which esthetic treatises, dramatic texts, religious tracts, theories of acting, political polemics, and philosophical writings consistently figure the actor and the art of portraying a character on stage as the era’s most promising, and problematic, model of selfhood.
Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between performance and self. Innovative interpretations of La Chaussée, Rousseau, Diderot, Rétif, Beaumarchais, and others demonstrate how the figure of the actor threatened ancien régime moral hierarchies by decoupling affect from emotion. As acting came to be understood as an embodied practice of individual freedom, attempts to alternately perfect and repress it proliferated. Across religious diatribes and sentimental comedies, technical manuals and epistolary novels, Leichman traces the development of early modern acting theories that define the aesthetics, philosophy, and politics of the performed subject. Acting Up weaves together cultural studies, literary analysis, theater history, and performance studies to establish acting as a key conceptual model for the subject, for the Enlightenment, and for our own time.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Virtue to Virtuosity
Chapter 2: Good Acting, Acting Good
Chapter 3: The Paradox of the Republican
Chapter 4: Sovereign Actors
Chapter 5: Of Citizens and Slaves
Chapter 6: Overthrowing Acting
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Virtue to Virtuosity
Chapter 2: Good Acting, Acting Good
Chapter 3: The Paradox of the Republican
Chapter 4: Sovereign Actors
Chapter 5: Of Citizens and Slaves
Chapter 6: Overthrowing Acting
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author