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Private theatricals : the lives of the Victorians / Nina Auerbach.
LIBRA PN2594 .A8 1990
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PN2594 .A8 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auerbach, Nina, 1943-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- English drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Illusion in literature.
- Role playing in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- In novels, popular fiction, and biographies Nina Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle, childhood, passage to maturity, and death, she demonstrates how the process of living was for the Victorians the acting of a role.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0674707559
- OCLC:
- 20296066
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