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Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage

Om Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage

Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, tuberculosis was a leading killer. The consumptive character became a vehicle through which standards of health, beauty, and virtue were imposed; constructions of class, gender, and sexuality were debated; the boundaries of nationhood were transgressed or maintained; and an exceedingly fragile whiteness was held up as a dominant social ideal. By telling the story of tuberculosis on the transatlantic stage, Symptoms of the Self uncovers some of the wellsprings of modern Western theatrical practice--and of ideas about the self that still affect the way human beings live and die.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9781609388614
  • Format:
  • Häftad
  • Sidor:
  • 312
  • Utgiven:
  • 4. januari 2023
  • Mått:
  • 150x25x226 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 399 g.
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Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
Förväntad leverans: 9. maj 2025

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Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, tuberculosis was a leading killer. The consumptive character became a vehicle through which standards of health, beauty, and virtue were imposed; constructions of class, gender, and sexuality were debated; the boundaries of nationhood were transgressed or maintained; and an exceedingly fragile whiteness was held up as a dominant social ideal. By telling the story of tuberculosis on the transatlantic stage, Symptoms of the Self uncovers some of the wellsprings of modern Western theatrical practice--and of ideas about the self that still affect the way human beings live and die.

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