| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Chiasma,
1380-7811 ;
21
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Chiasma ; 21.
1380-7811
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234). |
| Summary |
To trace the life of Marie Dorval through the turbulences and exhilarations of her epoch is to engage not just with the genesis and the full flowering of a rare theatrical genius but also with the teeming literary, emotional, economic and material dramas in which such a genius is implacably embroiled. Dumas, Vigny, Hugo, Sand, Gautier and many others mingle their creative and affective energies with Dorval's in a ceaseless dynamic interplay. But to read Bettina Knapp's exceptional story is to realize too the so easily overlooked backcloth to life in Marie Dorval's times: poverty, the need to w. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dorval, Marie, 1798-1849.
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Dorval, Marie, 1798-1849. |
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Actors -- France -- Biography.
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Actors. |
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France. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, 1926- Marie Dorval. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 9789042021327 9042021322 (OCoLC)122935706 |
| ISBN |
9781429480857 (electronic book) |
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1429480858 (electronic book) |
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9789042021327 (paperback) |
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9042021322 (paperback) |
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