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The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 /
This book argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture. By resurrecting long-neglected theatrical influences on representative works of short...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802
- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard
- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs
- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies
- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England
- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism.