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  1. Private Theatricals
    The Lives of the Victorians
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674418899; 9780674418882
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    Subjects: Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Drama; Geschichte; Theater; Theater, Tanz; Illusion in literature; Role playing in literature; Theatraliteit; Toneel; Toneelstukken; Victoriaanse tijd; English drama; Theater; Prosa; Rollenspiel (Motiv); Literatur; Rollenspiel; Rollenspiel; Prosa; Inszenierung; Privatleben; Literatur; Theatralik; Englisch; Rollenspiel <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,132p.)
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    Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal

    "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage

  2. Private Theatricals
    The Lives of the Victorians
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    TH-AB - Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Hochschule Coburg, Zentralbibliothek
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674418899
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Drama; Geschichte; Theater; Theater, Tanz; Illusion in literature; Role playing in literature; Theatraliteit; Toneel; Toneelstukken; Victoriaanse tijd; English drama; Theater; Prosa; Rollenspiel (Motiv); Literatur; Rollenspiel; Rollenspiel; Prosa; Inszenierung; Privatleben; Literatur; Theatralik; Englisch; Rollenspiel <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,132p.)
    Notes:

    5 schw.-w. Abb., 1 frontispiece

    Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal

    "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage