Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Conti, Meredith

Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138703117)

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Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Conti, Meredith

Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine

$200.00
Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Conti, Meredith

Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Playing Sick reconstructs how actors embodied three of the Victorian era's most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the diseased.



Author: Meredith Conti
ISBN-10: 1138703117
ISBN-13: 9781138703117
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Meredith Conti
By Meredith Conti
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Meredith Conti is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. A historian of nineteenth-century theatre and performance, Conti's work has appeared in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (2015).

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