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The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815
This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, bran...
The Melodramatic Moment
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their ...
Doing Criticism
Not only an accessible hands-on guide to writing criticism across the literary arts, the dramatic arts, and the narrative screen arts, but also a book that makes a case for how and why criticism matters today Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts is a practical guide to engaging actively and productively with a critical object, whether a film, a novel, or a play. Going beyond the study of lyric poetry and literature to include motion picture and dramatic arts, this unique text provides specific advice on how to best write criticism while offering concrete illustrations of what it looks like on the page. Divided into two parts, the book first presents an up-to-date account of the s...
The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven
Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.
European Literatures in Britain, 18–15–1832: Romantic Translations
Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Modern Murders
Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the deba...
The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre
This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.
La philosophie de l'histoire par le théâtre
À travers l'analyse de l'entièreté des manuscrits de quatre pièces de théâtre de Herder issus de ses séjours à Riga et Bückeburg – Ein Skaldengesang, Sokrates, Brutus et Philoktetes. Scenen mit Gesang –, cette étude mesure l'envergure du caractère interdisciplinaire de l'oeuvre de Herder en révélant les liens étroits qui unissent ses réflexions en philosophie de l'histoire et sa pratique dramaturgique. Le travail philologique, ainsi que l'ampleur et la variété des sources consultées permettent de voir comment les limites entre les disciplines se déplacent et se transforment dans l'esprit de l'auteur au fur et à mesure qu'il traite de certains motifs communs à la phil...
