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Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act

Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act

Arons, W.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 1403973296
ISBN13: 9781403973290
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 3 2006
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity placed a peculiar burden on women in the public sphere, especially on actresses, who - like professional writers - overstepped the boundaries of what was considered proper behavior for women. Paradoxically, in their representations of ideal women engaged in performance, these writers expose ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempt to perform it in their writing and in their lives.

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