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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830.
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| 著者・編者 | Piccitto, Diane / Robinson, Terry F. (eds.), |
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| 出版社 | (The University of Michigan Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2023 |
| ページ数 | 396 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-25318＞ |
解説
Finalist: 2024 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Book Award Shortlist
Finalist: 2024 Society for Theatre Research (STR) Book Prize Longlist
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume's essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.