ISBN: 0820317519

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to con… More...

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. 17th century,18th century,british and irish,criticism and theory,drama,history,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction History, University of Georgia Press<

ISBN: 0820317519

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to con… More...

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. 17th century,18th century,british and irish,criticism and theory,drama,history,history and criticism,literature and fiction,modern (16th-21st centuries),movements and periods History, Univ of Georgia Pr<

ISBN: 0820317519

[SR: 5434769], Paperback, [EAN: 9780820317519], University of Georgia Press, University of Georgia Press, Book, [PU: University of Georgia Press], University of Georgia Press, 515318, Pla… More...

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