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- catalog abstract ""In Acting Naturally Lynn Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation. Rather than confirming the customary view of Victorian England as fundamentally antitheatrical, Voskuil shows instead how the Victorians' fabled commitment to the culture of sincerity was often authorized, rather than invariably threatened, by their equally powerful fascination with acting and performance. She explores a diverse range of materials: plays, novels, drama and theater criticism, newspaper reviews and columns, theatrical memoirs, private diaries and letters, cartoons, political pamphlets, and satires. Throughout, Voskuil charts the mid-Victorian heyday of these beliefs and their late-Victorian transformations in a variety of cultural practices and controversies, among them the conduct of audiences at sensation theater in the 1860s, political debates over the Eastern Question in the 1870s, and the cult of personality that shaped the popularity of the stage actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in the late 1880s." "By demonstrating that Britons were perceived or enjoined to "act naturally" in such cases, this path-breaking book not only offers an innovative interpretation of Victorian culture but also challenges what has become a theoretical commonplace: the unreflective use of postmodern theatricality to explain earlier cultures and literatures. Precisely by analyzing central issues in the historical context of the nineteenth century, Acting Naturally reconceives widely used theoretical models that have influenced literary, performance, and cultural studies more broadly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13302680.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""By demonstrating that Britons were perceived or enjoined to "act naturally" in such cases, this path-breaking book not only offers an innovative interpretation of Victorian culture but also challenges what has become a theoretical commonplace: the unreflective use of postmodern theatricality to explain earlier cultures and literatures. Precisely by analyzing central issues in the historical context of the nineteenth century, Acting Naturally reconceives widely used theoretical models that have influenced literary, performance, and cultural studies more broadly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In Acting Naturally Lynn Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation. Rather than confirming the customary view of Victorian England as fundamentally antitheatrical, Voskuil shows instead how the Victorians' fabled commitment to the culture of sincerity was often authorized, rather than invariably threatened, by their equally powerful fascination with acting and performance. She explores a diverse range of materials: plays, novels, drama and theater criticism, newspaper reviews and columns, theatrical memoirs, private diaries and letters, cartoons, political pamphlets, and satires.".
- catalog description ""Spectators of ourselves" : theatricality and self-knowledge -- Feeling public : sensation theater, commodity culture, and the Victorian public sphere -- National theaters : Daniel Deronda and the theatricality of nationhood -- A political masquerade : Disraeli, Victoria, and the Royal Titles Bill -- Natural celebrities : Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and the power of personality.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.".
- catalog description "Throughout, Voskuil charts the mid-Victorian heyday of these beliefs and their late-Victorian transformations in a variety of cultural practices and controversies, among them the conduct of audiences at sensation theater in the 1860s, political debates over the Eastern Question in the 1870s, and the cult of personality that shaped the popularity of the stage actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in the late 1880s."".
- catalog extent "xi, 268 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813922690 (Cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "306.4/84/094109034 22".
- catalog subject "Acting Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "DA533 .V67 2004".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, British History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Performing arts Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Sincerity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Theater and society Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Spectators of ourselves" : theatricality and self-knowledge -- Feeling public : sensation theater, commodity culture, and the Victorian public sphere -- National theaters : Daniel Deronda and the theatricality of nationhood -- A political masquerade : Disraeli, Victoria, and the Royal Titles Bill -- Natural celebrities : Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and the power of personality.".
- catalog title "Acting naturally : Victorian theatricality and authenticity / Lynn M. Voskuil.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".