In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s: Stefan Zweig, Irving Thalberg, and Norma Shearer

by T. Lawrence Larkin

In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s. The first chapter establishes the core subject as an inquiry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030145999
• ISBN13: 9783030145996
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"