Performance Anxiety: Hysteria and the Actress in French Literature 1880-1910

My dissertation uses close readings of four texts dealing with the actress, spanning the naturalist novel (Zola’s Nana, 1880, and Edmond de Goncourt’s La Faustin, 1882), autobiography (Sarah Bernhardt’s Ma double vie, 1907) and autobiographical fiction (Colette’s La Vagabonde, 1910), in order to exa...

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Main Author: Wooler, Stephanie
Other Authors: Beizer, Janet L.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2012
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10246
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10086001