Political Actors : : Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution /

Political Actors : : Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution / / Paul Friedland.

From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Friedland, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 chart, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I: THE REVOLUTION IN REPRESENTATION
  • Prologue. A Parable: The Revolution in Theatrical Representation
  • I. Embodiment: Concrete Re-presentation in Premodern France
  • 2. A New Political Aesthetic: Public Opinion and the Birth of the Modern Political Audience
  • Entr'acte. Public Opinion and the Theater
  • 3. The Resurrection and Refashioning of the Estates General
  • 4. Praxis: The Birth of the National Assembly and the Death of the Binding Mandate
  • II: REPRESENTATION IN THE REVOLUTION
  • 5. Metissage: The Merging of Theater and Politics in Revolutionary France
  • 6. Theater Critics: Reactions to Actors on the Political Stage
  • 7. The Fear and Ridicule of Revolutionary Representations
  • 8. Breaching the Fourth: Wall Spectators Storm the Stage, Actors Invade the Audience
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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