Private Theatricals : : The Lives of the Victorians / / Nina Auerbach.
"Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can...
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Auerbach, Nina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Private Theatricals : The Lives of the Victorians / Nina Auerbach. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1990 1 online resource (132 p.) : 5 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Trees and Transfigurations -- I. Little Actors -- II. Patterns of Conversion -- III. Death Scenes -- EPILOGUE Theatrical Fears -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATION SOURCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) English drama. Illusion in literature. Literatur. Prosa. Role playing in literature. Rollenspiel (Motiv). Rollenspiel. Theater, Tanz. Theater. Theatraliteit. Toneel. Toneelstukken. Victoriaanse tijd. English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Literature eBook Package 9783110353501 ZDB-23-HLI Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674418882 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418899 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674418899 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674418899.jpg |
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