Playing sick: performances of illness in the age of victorian medicine
Auteur :
Conti, Meredith
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781138703117
Date de publication :
1 août 2018
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
522 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.