Entertaining crisis in the Atlantic imperium, 1770-1790 [electronic resource] / Daniel O'Quinn.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 428 p. :) illContent type: - text
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- 9781421401898
- 1421401894
- 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
- 822/.50938541073 22
- PR714.M37 O68 2011
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".
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