The Tragic Muse
Author : Henry James
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Henry James
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822315711
The great nineteenth-century tragedienne known simply as Rachel was the first dramatic actress to achieve international fame. Composing her own persona with the same brilliance and passion she demonstrated on stage, she virtually invented the role of "star." Rumors of her extravagant life offstage delighted the audiences who flocked to theaters in Boston and Paris, London and Moscow, to see her perform in the tragedies of Racine and Corneille. In Tragic Muse, Rachel M. Brownstein reveals the life of la grande Rachel and explores--at the boundary of biography, fiction, and cultural history--the connections between this self-dramatizing woman and her image. Born to itinerant Jewish peddlers in 1821, Rachel arrived on the Paris stage at the age of fifteen. She became both a symbol of her culture's highest art and a clue to its values and obsessions. Fascinated with all things Napoleonic, she was the mother of Napoleon's grandson and the lover of many men connected to the emperor. Her story--the rise from humble beginnings to queen of the French state theater--echoes and parodies Napoleon's own. She decisively controlled her career, her time, and finances despite the actions and claims of managers, suitors, and lovers. A woman of exceptional charisma, Rachel embodied contradiction and paradox. She captured the attention of her time and was memorialized in the works of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Henry James. Richly illustrated with portraits, photographs, and caricatures, Tragic Muse combines brilliant literary analysis and exceptional historical research. With great skill and acuity, Rachel M. Brownstein presents Rachel--her brief intense life and the image that was both self-fashioned and, outliving her, fashioned by others. First published by Knopf (1993), this book will attract a broad audience interested in matters as wide ranging as the construction of character, the cult of celebrity, women's lives, and Jewish history. It will also be of enduring interest to readers concerned with nineteenth-century French culture, history, literature, theater, and Romanticism. Tragic Muse won the 1993 George Freedley Award presented by the Theater Library Association.
Author : Anne Rachel Leonard
Publisher : Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780935573497
Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Feb. 10-June 5, 2011.
Author : Henry James
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Henry James
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File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786569698
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Tragic Muse’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henry James’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of James includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Tragic Muse’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to James’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Author : Henry James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732696952
Reproduction of the original: The Tragic Muse by Henry James
Author : Jana Rivers Norton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527543404
This volume offers a critical yet empathic exploration of the ancient myth of Medea as immortalized by early Greek and Roman dramatists to showcase the tragic forces afoot when relational suffering remains unresolved in the lives of individuals, families and communities. Medea as a tragic figure, whose sense of isolation and betrayal interferes with her ability to form healthy attachments, reveals the human propensity for violence when the agony of unresolved grief turns to vengeance against those we hold most dear. However, metaphorically, her life story as an emblem for existential crisis serves as a psychological touchstone in the lives of early twentieth-century female authors, who struggled to find their rightful place in the world, to resolve the sorrow of unrequited love and devotion, and to reconcile experiences of societal abandonment and neglect as self-discovery.
Author : Henry James
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781010651314
Author : Henry James
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Page : 764 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
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The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success. A cast of supporting characters help and hinder their pursuits.