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Author : Gillian Russell
Release : 2007-06-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 320/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London by : Gillian Russell
Download or read book Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London written by Gillian Russell. This book was released on 2007-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of sociability in the eighteenth century.
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Release : 2014-06-02
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 300/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie
Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie. This book was released on 2014-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.
Author : Gillian Russell
Release : 2020-08-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 865/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century by : Gillian Russell
Download or read book The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century written by Gillian Russell. This book was released on 2020-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustrated with examples from across the period, Gillian Russell examines the emergence of the cultural category of printed ephemera, its relationship with forms of sociability, the history of the book, and ideas of what constituted the boundaries of literature and literary value. Russell explores the role of contemporary collectors such as Sarah Sophia Banks in preserving such material, arguing for 'ephemerology' as a distinctive strand of popular antiquarianism. Multi-disciplinary in scope, The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century reveals new perspectives on the history of theatre, the fiction of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, and on the history of bibliography, as well as highlighting the continuing relevance of the concept of ephemerality to how we connect through social media today.
Author : Lauren Gillingham
Release : 2023-05-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 574/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by : Lauren Gillingham
Download or read book Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel written by Lauren Gillingham. This book was released on 2023-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself.
Author : Jonathan Mulrooney
Release : 2019-01-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 396/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Romanticism and Theatrical Experience by : Jonathan Mulrooney
Download or read book Romanticism and Theatrical Experience written by Jonathan Mulrooney. This book was released on 2019-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean's ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater's significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater's textual legacies for our own re-assessment of 'Romanticism' as a historical and cultural phenomenon.
