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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790
- Author / Creator
Details
- Creator
- Daniel O'Quinn
- Included Title
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- Project MUSE Open Access ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (440 pages): ill.
- ISBNs
- 9781421428307, 9780801899317, 9781421401898
- OCLC
- ocn794700357
- Open Access
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-414) and index.
- Introduction : entertainment, mediation and the future of empire -- Diversions. The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. To rise in greater splendor : John Andre's Errant knights -- "The body" of David Garrick : Richard Brinsley Sheridan, America and the ends of theatre -- Celebrations. Which is the man? remediation, interruption and the celebration of martial masculinity -- Days and nights of the living dead : Handelmania -- Coda : "in praise of the oak, its advantage and prosperity"
Subjects
- Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Theater -- Political aspects -- England -- London.
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Masculinity in literature.
- English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.