Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809 : Essays on His Works and Life
Miriam. Wallace
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (266 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Thomas Holcroft: Life and Works; Introduction; Part 1 Becoming a Man of Letters; 1 Developmental Stages: Thomas Holcroft's Early Fiction, Elocutionary Rhetoric, and the Function of the Theater in the Progress of Character; 2 Holcroft and The Art of Sinking in Poetry; 3 Holcroft's Translations of the 1780s and Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de Lichtfield; Part 2 Reform on the Stage; 4 Rewriting Shylock: Thomas Holcroft, Semitic Discourse, and Anti-Semitism on the English Stage. - 12 Politics for the People: Thomas Holcroft's Proto-MarxismBibliography; Index. - 5 "Perfectly harmless and secure"?: The Political Contexts of Thomas Holcroft's He's Much to Blame6 Illustrating Thomas Holcroft's A Tale of Mystery as Physiognomical Tableaux Vivant; Part 3 Reform in the Novel; 7 Language and Landscape in Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives; 8 Examining Jacobin Sexual Politics in Anna St. Ives; 9 Contradictory Strictures: Print, Speech, and the Problem of Mediation in Holcroft's Hugh Trevor; Part 4 Re-Viewing the Life; 10 Thomas Holcroft and Reviewing Traditions; 11 Transforming Experience into Reform in Holcroft's Memoirs and Literary Works. - The first essay collection devoted to Thomas Holcroft's life and work, this volume is a reassessment of his contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography and political philosophy. The contributors situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within on-going explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.
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| Emner | Holcroft, Thomas : (NO-TrBIB)90331044
Literature and society - History - England Politics and literature - History - Great Britain Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. Vis mer... Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Engelsk litteratur English Literature English Forfattere Languages & Literatures Litteratursosiologi Romantikken Storbritannia |
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| ISBN | 9781409444374
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