Character's theater
Character's theater: genre and identity on the eighteenth-century English stage Lisa A. Freeman
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
ISBN: 0812236394
DDC: 822.50927
LCC: PS708
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Summary:
"If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the
world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to
test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and
culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of
theatricality as both the governing metaphor of social life and a
primary filter of psychic perception. Hume's "theater of the mind,"
Adam Smith's "impartial spectator," and Diderot's "tableaux" are all
invoked by theorists to describe a process whereby the private
individual comes to internalize theatrical logic and apprehend the
self as other. To them theatricality is a critical mechanism of
modern subjectivity but one that needs to be concealed if the
subject's stability is to be maintained."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.
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