Staging Authority

Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook

Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrausch, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrkens, Philipp Nielsen, Kevin Rogan, Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrausch, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrkens, Philipp Nielsen, Kevin Rogan

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9783110571417
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority: what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence affected traditional authority. The handbook's fourteen chapters draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Staging Authority: Introduction
• Traditional and New Forms of Authority
• The Diversification of Authority: New Actors among Old Elites
• Presenting Authority on the Political Stage
• Nationalism and Empire as Modes of Hegemony
• Taking Possession of Public Spaces
• Index