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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Maslan, Susan, 1963- Revolutionary acts. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607704469 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Maslan |
ISBN: | 0801881250 9780801881251 |
OCLC Number: | 56905101 |
Description: | xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Resisting representation: theater and democracy in revolutionary France -- The comic revolution: Molire, Rousseau, Fabre d'Eglantine, and revolutionary antitheatricalism -- Robespierre's eye: revolutionary surveillance and the modern republican subject -- The home and the world: domestic surveillance and revolutionary drama. |
Series Title: | Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) |
Responsibility: | Susan Maslan. |
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Maslan's thought-provoking book makes a distinctive contribution to the understanding of the literary and cultural history of the French Revolution. Modern Language Review 2006 Original and thoughtful work... offers great originality, creativity, thoughtfulness and erudition. -- Gregory S. Brown H-France 2006 Ambitious, insightful, and engaging study. -- Thomas Wynn French Studies 2008 Revolutionary Acts is most successful as a series of creative, highly historicized... readings of the performances and reception of a handful of plays from 1780 to 1795. -- Jeffrey Ravel Journal of Modern History 2008 In its bold and compelling arguments and its subtle textual analyses, Maslan's study is... one of the most important and innovative books on revolutionary theater published in recent years. It makes an important contribution not only to the study of literature but also to the understanding of the history and political culture of the period. -- Elizabeth Amann Brecht Yearbook 2008 Read more...

