商品簡介
The author examines celebrities during Restoration and 18th-century London and how they tried to protect their privacy through the strategy of performance she calls “overexpression,” which allowed them to invite and disrupt the public gaze by enhancing or exaggerating the features through which they might be recognized and evaluated, such as gender, sexuality, Englishness, or character. She focuses on the comedian Colley Cibber, his cross-dressing daughter Charlotte Charke, the preacher-turned-novelist Laurence Sterne, the actor David Garrick, his protegee George Anne Bellamy, and the actress, poet, and royal courtesan Mary Robinson. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Julia Fawcett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley
