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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Distance, Theater and the Public Voice explores the ways in which theater helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. As theaters expanded, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Distance, Theater and the Public Voice shows how writers experimented with theatrical situations--both old and new, legitimate and illegitimate--as they crafted a voice that could sound intimate and personal even as it broadcast itself to an imagined public"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'In this taut little book, Nuss examines the ways that literary figures experimented with theatre forms and techniques as public theatres proliferated from the 18th into 19th century . . . This solid study will interest advanced students and scholars exploring the nexus of performance and literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - CHOICE</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Melynda Nuss is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas-Pan American, USA.

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