Writing for justice : Victor Séjour, the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the age of transatlantic emancipations / Elèna Mortara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mortara, Elèna, author.

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational.

Re-Mapping the Transnational

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Séjour, Victor, 1817-1874.

Séjour, Victor.

Mortara, Pio, 1851-1940.

Mortara, Pio.

Dramatists, American--19th century--Biography.

Dramatists, American.

Americans--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transnational battles for freedom and a personal work of remembrance

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Part I | A Creole American Writer in Paris

1 | From New Orleans to France: Séjour's Early Life and "Le Mulâtre"

2 | Diégarias, a Mixed-Identity Tragedy

3 | Poet, Playwright, and Double Endings in 1859

II | In the Age of Emancipations: The Mortara Case and A Writer's Conscience

4 | La Tireuse de cartes: The Mortara Case and Artistic Passing

5 | A Catholic Playwright and His Plea to the Pope

6 | Plot and Confl icts on Stage in La Tireuse de cartes

7 | Mulatta Figures in French and American Literature, 1834-1853

8 | The Gender Issue in the Play

9 | Torn between Belongings

10 | Revenge vs. Forgiveness in Shakespeare and Séjour

11 | Censorship, History, and the Drama's Denouement

12 | Contemporary Performances and Reviews in France and Italy

13 | An Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

14 | Rise and Fall of an Expatriate Playwright-"This Shakespeare of the Boulevard

15 | A Writer's Indignant Conscience

III | When It Snows History

16 | Family Recollections: A Personal Note

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61168-791-8

OCLC:

925585799