The Orient of the Boulevards : : Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater / / Angela C. Pao.
The author draws upon the methodologies of theater and cultural studies to examine the construction of "the Orient" on the Parisian stage during the nineteenth century, the period of France's first imperial expansions into North Africa and the Middle East.As an increasingly large segm...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Cultural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: From the Orient as Theater to the Orient in the Theater
- Domestic Exoticism
- 1. Nineteenth-Century Popular Theater
- 2. Exotic Tragedy
- 3. Exotic Boundaries
- 4. Oriental Escapades
- Dramatic Campaigns
- 5. National Images
- 6. Fictions of War
- 7. Oriental Campaigns in Print and on Stage
- 8. Occident versus Orient
- Conclusion: From Stage to Screen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index