Meredith Conti

Gebundenes Buch

Playing Sick

Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine

Beschreibung

Playing Sick reconstructs how actors embodied three of the Victorian era's most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the diseased.

Autor

Meredith Conti is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. A historian of nineteenth-century theatre and performance, Conti's work has appeared in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781138703117
• ISBN-10: 1138703117
• Artikelnr.: 53690548