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100 1 $aNemerov, Alexander.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94010723
245 10 $aActing in the night :$bMacbeth and the places of the Civil War /$cAlexander Nemerov.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a299 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $g1.$tA Stone's Throw: Charlotte Cushman -- $g2.$tThe Flame of Place: Abraham Lincoln -- $g3.$tThe Glass Case: Interior Life in Washington, D.C. -- $g4.$tAcoustic Shadows: The Battle of Bristoe Station -- $g5.$tCenter of Echoes Castle Murray, Fauquier Country -- $g6.$tGhosts: The Death of Colonel Thomas Ruffin, October 17, 1863 -- $g7.$tSound and Fury: Nature in Virginia.
500 $a"Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a""Alexander Nemerov is one of the greatest readers of American visual culture. This book has the revelatory power that only wide-ranging curiosity and true independence of mind can achieve." Richard H. Brodhead President of Duke University and author of Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America" ""A benchmark in the writing of art history and in studies of the Civil War, Acting in the Night occupies a category unto itself. It uniquely immerses the reader in a holistic experience of the Civil War and shows Nemerov as a cosummate stylist in the field of American art history."Kathleen Pyne author of Modernism and the Feminine Voice" ""This is a work of criticism that borders on poetry, a brilliant and extremely original book that invites us to rethink to the artistic world we study."Julia Reinhard Lupton author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life." "What can the performance of a single play on one night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 1863---with Abraham Lincoln in attendance---to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar,"in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it. For Nemerov, that evening's performance of Macbeth reached across the tragedy of civil war to acknowledge the horrors and emptiness of a world it tried and ultimately failed to change."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xTheater and the war.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100005
650 0 $aTheater and society$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aTheater$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y19th century.
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616.$tMacbeth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82011242
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616$xStage history$zUnited States.
651 0 $aWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects.
651 0 $aVirginia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects.
651 0 $aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aVirginia$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
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