Theatermania in Eighteenth-Century Europe : : An Interdisciplinary and Contextual Approach to the History of Theater /

Theatermania in Eighteenth-Century Europe : : An Interdisciplinary and Contextual Approach to the History of Theater / / ed. by Sonia Bellavia.

The group volume distinguishes itself by its multidisciplinary, comparative approach and by the network of relationships it weaves between the various European languages and cultures. The study takes shape from its different viewpoints and in its diverse contexts, to chart a detailed historical-conc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Ascarelli, Roberta,
Bellavia, Sonia,
Fazio, Mara,
Frantz, Pierre,
Gabizon, Fiorella,
Gebbia, Alessandro,
Guerra, Gabriele,
Hohenegger, Hansmichael,
Latini, Micaela,
Lepore, Ilaria,
Locatelli, Stefano,
Menin, Marco,
Pfotenhauer, Helmut,
Scannapieco, Anna,
HerausgeberIn:
Bellavia, Sonia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 191 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Theatermania – The construction of the individual
  • ‘Theatrical manias’. Karl Philipp Moritz and late eighteenth-century Theatermania
  • Sacrificial manias. Imagination, theatrum mundi and renunciation in Anton Reiser
  • From comédie larmoyante to lacrymanie. Metamorphosis of sensibility in late eighteenth-century French theater
  • Is it a tragedy? Is it a comedy? J.M.R. Lenz’s theatrical aesthetics
  • Theatermania and investigation of the Self
  • Transgression and moralism. Lessing and the vain seduction of sin
  • Identity construction and Theatermania in Richard Cumberland
  • Part II: Theatermania – The construction of society
  • Voltaire and the théâtres de société
  • La Théâtromanie, a comedy by Pierre de La Montagne. Theater, mimesis and contagion
  • Revolutionary Theatermania
  • Goethe and Theater as “das zusammenbrennende, zusammentreffende Ganze”
  • The novel of theater and the theater of the novel. Towards a definition of Theatermania in England from the age of Shakespeare to that of the Revolutions
  • Venetian Theatermanias
  • Theater and the arts in the treatises on political economy of eighteenth-century Italian reformers: population, public, spectator
  • Index of names

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