1st Edition
Transgressive Theatricality, Romanticism, and Mary Wollstonecraft
By Lisa Plummer Crafton
Copyright 2011
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft interrogates and represents the connected network of theater, culture, and self-representation, in what Lisa Plummer Crafton argues is a conscious appropriation of theater in its literal, cultural, and figurative dimensions. Situating Wollstonecraft within early Romantic debates about theatricality, she explores Wollstonecraft's appropriation of, immersion... Read more
Introduction, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 1 Wollstonecraft and Romantic (Anti) Theatricality, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 2 “Stage Effect”: Transgressive Theatricality in Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 3 Becoming a “Sign-post”: Ethics and Theater, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 4 “The subterfuge of law”: Theatricality and Juridical Discourse, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 5 “The gallery is in place of the house”: The French Revolution and State Theater, Lisa Plummer Crafton; Chapter 6 Retaliatory Self-Invention: Siddons, Wollstonecraft, and Theatricality, Lisa Plummer Crafton;
Biography
Lisa Plummer Crafton is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the editor of The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture and is the author of numerous articles on Wollstonecraft and Blake.
'Crafton’s reconsideration of Wollstonecraft’s contribution to and the influence of ideas about theatricality will make this a useful resource for scholars of both subjects, and her central argument about theatricality’s potential to be both coercive and liberating deserves further attention.' New Theatre Quarterly '... the rich detail will prove to be very useful for those researching the theatrical climate of the 1790s. Wollstonecraft emerges as a theatrical writer herself who is constantly reacting to the culture of spectacle she inhabited; in this way, her multiple and varying ideas are related by Crafton to society’s own complex and conflicting attitudes towards theatricality.' BARS Bulletin 'Crafton's monograph opens up a welcome space for thought within studies of Wollstonecraft, and it should be read by the serious Wollstonecraft scholar.' Modern Language Review
