Fictions of presence : theatre and novel in eighteenth-century Britain
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Fictions of presence : theatre and novel in eighteenth-century Britain
（Studies in the eighteenth century）
Boydell Press, 2020
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"Published in association with BSECS, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-303) and index
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内容説明
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly fashionable. But the story is not one of theatre's decline and the novel's rise. As Ros Ballaster shows in this lively and innovative study, the relationship between the two media was one of an intensely creative and productive rivalry. Novelists sent their heroes to the theatre, dramatists appropriated the plots of popular novels, the celebrity status of actors was advanced through guest appearances in printed prose fictions. Some figures, like Richardson's virtuous serving maid Pamela, or Sterne's eccentrichumourist Tristram Shandy, acquired such independent lives in the minds of the public that they migrated into the mainstream of popular culture.
Fictions of Presence describes how major authors of the period - Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith - spanned both genres. It charts the movement of popular fictional characters between stage and page. And it looks at the representation of contemporary audiences and readers in the new types of the (female) mimic and the (male) critic. Crucially, Ballaster delineates the ground over which the two media competed: the ability to create 'presence' - a sense of being present with the moment of action, of finding 'being' in fictional worlds - in the mind's eye of readers and theatregoers. In so doing, she not only illuminates the shared history of the theatre and the novel, but describes the power of aesthetic experience itself.
目次
Introduction: Being There
Introducing the Author
Eliza Haywood: Authoring Adultery
Henry Fielding: Ghost Writing
Charlotte Lennox: (In)dependent Authorship
Oliver Goldsmith: Keeping up Authorial Appearances
From Author to Character
Introducing Characters
Outdoing Character: Lady Townly
The Sway of Character: Pamela
The Expanse of Character: Ranger
The Play of Character: Tristram
From Character to Consumer
Introducing Consumers
The Mimic
The Critic
Conclusion
Bibliography
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