Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy
Partial Animacy and Blind Listening in Napoleonic Italy
Chapter 4 continues these considerations of the animated statue’s political resonance during the Napoleonic years, but with a particular focus on the ways in which this model was deployed to represent socialization on the stage. First, the chapter marks the final flourishing of the Pygmalion theme on Italian stages in the first years of the nineteenth century. Then it traces the ways in which these fantasies of a plastic-human threshold were relocated to the biological body. Pygmalion narratives came to be applied not only to statues but also to living humans with nonfunctioning senses.
Keywords: socialization, sensing, blindness, aesthetics, plasticity
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