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Author: Lisa A. Freeman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812224559
ISBN 10: 0812224558
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 01 November 2019
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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This book's rigorous historicism and meticulous close readings are impressive, but more importantly, they are foundational to its theoretical reach and power. Freeman's premise that anti-theatricality persistently calls on a 'body public,' a particular understanding of the ideal state that includes even as it excludes bodies, is a productive way to consider more than this book's five cases. -Eighteenth-Century Fiction Lisa Freeman's rich study should take a privileged place alongside the most influential work in the field. . . . Antitheatricality and the Body Public should inspire any reader to pursue the reciprocity between theatre and power modeled by her exemplary scholarship. -Theatre Journal As Levi-Strauss said of cats, the theater 'is good to think with,' especially in moments of social stress and trauma, and Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates just how useful it can be in five meticulously researched case studies. Her book represents an impressive labor of research and writing, chock full of new material in every chapter. -Joseph Roach, Yale University Dazzlingly ambitious and meticulously researched. . . . [Antitheatricality and the Body Public] a testament to the perspicacity of Freeman's thought that her ideas shed light not only on the theatre as a key to understanding how societies have defined and debated their constituents in the near and distant past, but also on how we might use the theatre to think through the constitutional crises of the present and the future. -TDR: The Drama Review It is, a bold-but certainly timely-move by Lisa Freeman to analyze antitheatricality anew. She delivers on this task with a thorough and thought-provoking investigation realized in a compelling series of case studies that demonstrate the pervasiveness of antitheatrical onslaughts across theater history. . . . A must-read for researchers working on any period of British or American theater. -Bulletin of the Comediantes A work of great erudition and scholarly merit that shows how antitheatrical rhetoric emerges as a way of mediating social, cultural, and governmental crisis. The result is a highly self-aware and remarkably original argument about the function of cultural regulation. -Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
"""Dazzlingly ambitious and meticulously researched. . . . [Antitheatricality and the Body Public] is a testament to the perspicacity of Freeman's thought that her ideas shed light not only on the theater as a key to understanding how societies have defined and debated their constituents in the near and distant past but also on how we might use the theater to think through the constitutional crises of the present and the future."" * <i>TDR: The Drama Review</i> * ""Lisa Freeman's rich study should take a privileged place alongside the most influential work in the field. . . . Antitheatricality and the Body Public should inspire any reader to pursue the reciprocity between theater and power modeled by her exemplary scholarship."" * <i>Theatre Journal</i> * ""It is, a bold-but certainly timely-move by Lisa Freeman to analyze antitheatricality anew. She delivers on this task with a thorough and thought-provoking investigation realized in a compelling series of case studies that demonstrate the pervasiveness of antitheatrical onslaughts across theater history. . . . A must-read for researchers working on any period of British or American theater."" * <i>Bulletin of the Comediantes</i> * ""This book's rigorous historicism and meticulous close readings are impressive, but more importantly, they are foundational to its theoretical reach and power. Freeman's premise that antitheatricality persistently calls on a 'body public,' a particular understanding of the ideal state that includes even as it excludes bodies, is a productive way to consider more than this book's five cases."" * <i>Eighteenth-Century Fiction</i> * ""As Lévi-Strauss said of cats, the theater 'is good to think with,' especially in moments of social stress and trauma, and Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates just how useful it can be in five meticulously researched case studies. Her book represents an impressive labor of research and writing, chock full of new material in every chapter."" * Joseph Roach, Yale University * ""A work of great erudition and scholarly merit that shows how antitheatrical rhetoric emerges as a way of mediating social, cultural, and governmental crisis. The result is a highly self-aware and remarkably original argument about the function of cultural regulation."" * Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph *"
Dazzlingly ambitious and meticulously researched. . . . [Antitheatricality and the Body Public] is a testament to the perspicacity of Freeman's thought that her ideas shed light not only on the theater as a key to understanding how societies have defined and debated their constituents in the near and distant past but also on how we might use the theater to think through the constitutional crises of the present and the future. -TDR: The Drama Review Lisa Freeman's rich study should take a privileged place alongside the most influential work in the field. . . . Antitheatricality and the Body Public should inspire any reader to pursue the reciprocity between theater and power modeled by her exemplary scholarship. -Theatre Journal It is, a bold-but certainly timely-move by Lisa Freeman to analyze antitheatricality anew. She delivers on this task with a thorough and thought-provoking investigation realized in a compelling series of case studies that demonstrate the pervasiveness of antitheatrical onslaughts across theater history. . . . A must-read for researchers working on any period of British or American theater. -Bulletin of the Comediantes This book's rigorous historicism and meticulous close readings are impressive, but more importantly, they are foundational to its theoretical reach and power. Freeman's premise that antitheatricality persistently calls on a 'body public,' a particular understanding of the ideal state that includes even as it excludes bodies, is a productive way to consider more than this book's five cases. -Eighteenth-Century Fiction An original as well as scholarly book, Antitheatricality and the Body Publicestablishes its own trajectory in regard to the role of theatrical controversy in mediating crises of governance in Anglo-American culture as well as establish-ing a powerful model for future comparable inquiries . . . [A]n important book. -Eighteenth-Century Life As Levi-Strauss said of cats, the theater 'is good to think with,' especially in moments of social stress and trauma, and Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates just how useful it can be in five meticulously researched case studies. Her book represents an impressive labor of research and writing, chock full of new material in every chapter. -Joseph Roach, Yale University A work of great erudition and scholarly merit that shows how antitheatrical rhetoric emerges as a way of mediating social, cultural, and governmental crisis. The result is a highly self-aware and remarkably original argument about the function of cultural regulation. -Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
This book's rigorous historicism and meticulous close readings are impressive, but more importantly, they are foundational to its theoretical reach and power. Freeman's premise that anti-theatricality persistently calls on a 'body public, ' a particular understanding of the ideal state that includes even as it excludes bodies, is a productive way to consider more than this book's five cases. --Eighteenth-Century Fiction Lisa Freeman's rich study should take a privileged place alongside the most influential work in the field. . . . Antitheatricality and the Body Public should inspire any reader to pursue the reciprocity between theatre and power modeled by her exemplary scholarship. --Theatre Journal As L vi-Strauss said of cats, the theater 'is good to think with, ' especially in moments of social stress and trauma, and Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates just how useful it can be in five meticulously researched case studies. Her book represents an impressive labor of research and writing, chock full of new material in every chapter. --Joseph Roach, Yale University Dazzlingly ambitious and meticulously researched. . . . [Antitheatricality and the Body Public] a testament to the perspicacity of Freeman's thought that her ideas shed light not only on the theatre as a key to understanding how societies have defined and debated their constituents in the near and distant past, but also on how we might use the theatre to think through the constitutional crises of the present and the future. --TDR: The Drama Review It is, a bold--but certainly timely--move by Lisa Freeman to analyze antitheatricality anew. She delivers on this task with a thorough and thought-provoking investigation realized in a compelling series of case studies that demonstrate the pervasiveness of antitheatrical onslaughts across theater history. . . . A must-read for researchers working on any period of British or American theater. --Bulletin of the Comediantes A work of great erudition and scholarly merit that shows how antitheatrical rhetoric emerges as a way of mediating social, cultural, and governmental crisis. The result is a highly self-aware and remarkably original argument about the function of cultural regulation. --Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
Author Information
Lisa A. Freeman is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
