{"product_id":"symptoms-of-the-self-roberta-barker-9781609388614","title":"Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage","description":"\u003cb\u003e2023 Le Prix Ann Saddlemyer Award, Winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSymptoms of the Self\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first full study of the stage consumptive. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, tuberculosis was a leading killer. Its famous dramatic and operatic victims--Marguerite Gautier in \u003ci\u003eLa Dame aux Camélias\u003c\/i\u003e and her avatar Violetta in \u003ci\u003eLa Traviata\u003c\/i\u003e, Mimì in \u003ci\u003eLa Bohème, \u003c\/i\u003e Little Eva in \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, and Edmund Tyrone in \u003ci\u003eLong Day's Journey into Night\u003c\/i\u003e, to name but a few--are among the most iconic figures of the Western stage. Its classic symptoms, the cough and the blood-stained handkerchief, have become global performance shorthand for life-threatening illness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The consumptive character became a vehicle through which standards of health, beauty, and virtue were imposed; constructions of class, gender, and sexuality were debated; the boundaries of nationhood were transgressed or maintained; and an exceedingly fragile whiteness was held up as a dominant social ideal. By telling the story of tuberculosis on the transatlantic stage, \u003ci\u003eSymptoms of the Self\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers some of the wellsprings of modern Western theatrical practice--and of ideas about the self that still affect the way human beings live and die. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberta Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609388615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Roberta Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073030025471,"sku":"9781609388614","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac7f1020-4925-4b1f-bf70-0f4cb2d49c3c.jpg?v=1685445387","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/symptoms-of-the-self-roberta-barker-9781609388614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}