Writing for Justice : Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations /

Transnational battles for freedom and a personal work of remembrance.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mortara, Elena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sejour, Victor, > 1817-1874.
Mortara, Pio, > 1851-1940
Mortara, Pio, > 1851-1940.
Dramatists, American.
Americans.
DRAMA > Continental European.
Dramaturges americains > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Dramatists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Americans > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
France > Paris.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I A CREOLE AMERICAN WRITER IN PARIS
  • 1. From New Orleans to France: Sejour's Early Life and "Le Mulatre"
  • 2. Diegarias, a Mixed-Identity Tragedy
  • 3. Poet, Playwright, and Double Endings in 1859
  • pt. II IN THE ACE OF EMANCIPATIONS: THE MORTARA CASE AND A WRITER'S CONSCIENCE
  • 4. La Tireuse de cartes: The Mortara Case and Artistic Passing
  • 5.A Catholic Playwright and His Plea to the Pope
  • 6. Plot and Conflicts on Stage in La Tireuse de cartes
  • 7. Mulatta Figures in French and American Literature, 1834-1853: Gender, Race, and Identity
  • 8. The Gender Issue in the Play
  • 9. Torn between Belongings
  • 10. Revenge vs. Forgiveness in Shakespeare and Sejour
  • 11. Censorship, History, and the Drama's Denouement
  • 12. Contemporary Performances and Reviews in France and Italy
  • 13. An Age of Transatlantic Emancipations
  • 14. Rise and Fall of an Expatriate Playwright
  • "This Shakespeare of the Boulevard"
  • 15.A Writer's Indignant Conscience
  • pt. III WHEN IT SNOWS HISTORY
  • 16. Family Recollections: A Personal Note
  • Appendix: A Note on the Texts
  • 1."The Mortara Case," New York Times, December 4, 1858
  • 2. Penina Moise, "Tribute of Condolence," Jewish Messenger, December 24, 1858
  • 3. Adah Isaacs Menken, "To the Sons of Israel," Israelite, January 28, 1859
  • 4. Victor Sejour, Preface to La Tireuse de cartes (1860).

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