The sentimental theater of the French Revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Feilla, Cecilia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Series:	Performance in the long eighteenth century.
Subjects:	Theater > France > History > 18th century. Books and reading > France > History > 18th century. Theater > Moral and ethical aspects > France. Politics and literature > France > History > 18th century. France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Influence. History. Französisch. Drama. Französische Revolution. Politische Kultur. Theater. Revolution (France : 1789-1799) 1700 - 1799 Books and reading. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Politics and literature. Theater > Moral and ethical aspects. France.

Table of Contents:

The bestsellers of the French Revolution, or, Why sentimentality dominated the revolutionary stage: four case studies (la mère coupable, le déserteur, fénelon, and les deux petits savoyards)
Revolutionary tableaux: Diderot, David, and the sentimental frame of politics
Sentimental vows and the affective bonds of social contract: national and private theatricals in Collot d'Herbois's La famille patriote
Virtue's proofs: Paméla on stage and on trial during the terror
Virtuous citizen, suffering father: Voltaire's Brutus and the sentimentalization of political tragedy
Acting revolution: Talma and the sentimental body.