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Theatrical Realism: Staging Reality ...

Johnson, Erik L.

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Theatrical Realism: Staging Reality in French Theory and British Fiction, 1670-1764.

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正題名/作者:	Theatrical Realism: Staging Reality in French Theory and British Fiction, 1670-1764./
作者:	Johnson, Erik L.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	357 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05B.
標題:	French literature. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=11012424
ISBN:	9780438661073

Theatrical Realism: Staging Reality in French Theory and British Fiction, 1670-1764.
Johnson, Erik L.

Theatrical Realism: Staging Reality in French Theory and British Fiction, 1670-1764. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 357 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2018.

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My dissertation argues that theatrical theory played an essential and still-underappreciated role in eighteenth-century literary and intellectual history, including in the development of modern novelistic narration. The critical arena that emerged around the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century stage became an important site of literary traffic between England and France and made literary theory newly accessible to women writers and others lacking classical education. The transnational body of criticism the theater generated also inspired new standards of realism for imaginative literature grounded in a mix of contemporary thought about sense perception with an acceptance of artifice as a constitutive part of human reality. Examining the theory of drama as it appeared in translated treatises, paratexts to plays, periodicals, theatrical memoirs, and prescriptive writing about stage acting, I find the critical landscape of the period characterized by a turn away from text-based formalist criticism toward a focus on the variable life that plays can assume in performance. This theoretical turn helps to explain experiments in the realistic representation of time, of point of view, and of character in multiple genres. Looking at late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century authors of prose fiction including Madame de Lafayette, Aphra Behn, William Congreve, George Farquhar, Catharine Trotter, Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Horace Walpole, I trace narrative techniques that simulate the perspective of a theatrical spectator as contemporary critics imagined it. These techniques include the use of intrusive narrators and narrators on the periphery of the action to establish a consistent sense of time and of setting, as well as the use of psycho-narration and selectively deployed free indirect discourse to establish a consistency of character based on internal division and actor-like self-consciousness. In contrast to still-conventional accounts that treat the novel as an exceptional genre uniquely reflective of social and historical circumstance, my dissertation argues that a dominant and enduringly influential strain of eighteenth-century British prose fiction put into practice standards of realism developed within a broadly theatrical literary culture.

ISBN: 9780438661073Subjects--Topical Terms:

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French literature.
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Seventeenth Century

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