Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

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  • ISBN 9780472132881
  • Weight: 798g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 24 May 2023
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.

Diane Piccitto is Associate Professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Terry F. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto.