Pierrots on the Stage of Desire : : Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime / / Robert F. Storey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Storey, Robert F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Deburau -- II. Paul Legrand, Champfleury, and Pantomime after Deburau -- III. In Pursuit of Colombine: Charles Nodier and Charles Baudelaire -- IV. Pierrot posthume: Théophile Gautier -- V. Pierrot narcissique: Théodore de Banville -- VI. Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert -- VII. Pierrot glacé: Edmond de Goncourt -- VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-Κ. Huysmans -- IX. Pierrot pubère: Paul Verlaine -- X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte and Stéphane Mallarmé -- XI. Epilogue: Eclipse -- Handlist of Pantomime Scenarios -- Index