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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521023033

ISBN-139780521023030

eBay Product ID (ePID)48644931

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Number of Pages292 Pages

Publication NameWomen, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage : Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

SubjectWomen Authors, Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Europe / Great Britain / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)

TypeTextbook

AuthorBetsy Bolton

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama, Performing Arts, History

SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage is to be admired for the originality of its contents and the value of its method..well written and clearly organized...While it offers illuminating readings and careful scholarship to be apreciated for their own ends, it is also a book that invites further thinking about larger issues, including definitions of nationalism and the nature of women's political and literary authority within Romanticism." The Wordsworth Circle, "Entertaining as well as admirably researched; the readings are illuminating, and Bolton delivers an important reminder of the continuing power of the stage in the Romantic era." ASECS Book Reviews Online, "This is, perhaps, Bolton's most significant contribution to our understanding of how theater as an enacted medium...held such power in this period." Nineteenth Century Studies

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 46

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal792.082094109033

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: the female dramatist and the man of the people; Part I. Staging the Nation: 1. The politics of Romantic theatre; Part II. Romancing the State: Public Men and Public Women: 2. Varieties of Romance Nationalism; 3. Patriotic romance: Emma Hamilton and Horation Nelson; 4. (Dis)embodied romance: 'Perdita' Robinson and William Wordsworth; Part III. Mixed Drama, Imperial Farce: 5. Mimicry, politics and playwrighting; 6. The balance of power: Hannah Cowley's Day in Turkey; 7. The farce of subjection: Elizabeth Inchbald; Epilogue: what is she?; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

SynopsisIn the 1780s and 90s, theater critics described the stage as a state in political tumult, while politicians invoked theater as a model for politics both good and bad. In this study, Betsy Bolton examines the ways Romantic women performers and playwrights used theatrical conventions to intervene in politics. This well illustrated study draws on canonical poetry and personal memoirs, popular drama and parliamentary debates, political caricatures and theatrical reviews to extend current understandings of Romantic theater, the public sphere, and Romantic gender relations., In the 1780s and 90s, theatre critics described the stage as a state in political tumult, while politicians invoked theatre as a model for politics both good and bad. In this 2001 study, Betsy Bolton examines the ways Romantic women performers and playwrights used theatrical conventions to intervene in politics. Reading the public performances of Emma Hamilton and Mary Robinson through the conventions of dramatic romance, Bolton suggests that the romance of national identity developed by writers such as Southey and Wordsworth took shape in complex opposition to these unruly women. Setting the conventions of farce against those of sentiment, playwrights such as Hannah Cowley and Elizabeth Inchbald questioned imperial relations while criticizing contemporary gender relations. This well-illustrated study draws on canonical poetry and personal memoirs, popular drama and parliamentary debates, political caricatures and theatrical reviews to extend current understandings of Romantic theatre, the public sphere, and Romantic gender relations., Bolton examines the ways Romantic women performers and playwrights used theatrical conventions to intervene in politics. This well-illustrated 2001 study draws on poetry and personal memoirs, popular drama and parliamentary debates, political caricatures and theatrical reviews to extend current understandings of Romantic theatre, the public sphere, and Romantic gender relations.

LC Classification NumberPR719.P65 B65 2001