The Orient of the Boulevards : Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater /
The author draws upon the methodologies of theater and cultural studies to examine the construction of "the Orient" on the Parisian stage during the nineteenth century, the period of France's first imperial expansions into North Africa and the Middle East. As an increasingly large seg...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: From the Orient as Theater to the Orient in the Theater; Part I. Domestic Exoticism; 1. Nineteenth-Century Popular Theater: Institutions and Practices; 2. Exotic Tragedy: The Orient on the Ancien Regime Stage; 3. Exotic Boundaries: Reading the Censors; 4. Oriental Escapades: LesRuines de Babylone, or Positioning the European Spectator; Part II. Dramatic Campaigns; 5. National Images: From La Bataille d'Aboukir to Bonaparte en Egypte, or The Evolution of National Drama; 6. Fictions of War: Reading the Critics.
- 7. Oriental Campaigns in Print and on Stage8. Occident versus Orient: Les Massacres de Syrie and the Recasting of History; Conclusion: From Stage to Screen; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.