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Transgressive Theatricality, Romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Transgressive Theatricality, Romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft interrogates and
represents the connected network of theater, culture, and
self-representation, in what Lisa Plummer Crafton argues is a
conscious appropriation of theater in its literal, cultural, and
figurative dimensions. Situating Wollstonecraft within early
Romantic debates about theatricality, she explores Wollstonecraft's
appropriation of, immersion in, and contributions to these debates
within the contexts of philosophical arguments about the utility of
theater and spectacle; the political discourse of the French
Revolution; juridical transcripts of treason and civil divorce
trials; and the spectacle of the female actress in performance, as
typified by Sarah Siddons and her compelling connections to
Wollstonecraft on and off stage. As she considers Wollstonecraft's
contributions to competing notions of the theatrical, from the
writer's earliest literary reviews and translations through her
histories, correspondence, nonfiction, and novels, Crafton traces
the trajectory of Wollstonecraft's conscious appropriation of the
trope and her emphasis on theatricality's transgressive potential
for self-invention. Crafton's book, the first wide-ranging study of
theatricality in the works of Wollstonecraft, is an important
contribution to current reconsiderations of the earlier received
wisdom about Romantic anti-theatricality, to historicist revisions
of the performance and theory of Sarah Siddons, and to theories of
spectacle and gender.
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