The Political Reaction to the British Drama about the French Revolution, 1789-1799
Author : Paul R. Guyton
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English drama
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Author : Paul R. Guyton
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English drama
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Author : Pamela Clemit
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2011
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"The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advanced researchers and scholars"--Library of Congress.
Author : George Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521630525
This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Cecilia Feilla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317016300
Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much literary and historical criticism, but rather sentimental dramas and comedies, many of which originated on the stages of the Old Regime. Feilla suggests that theatre provided an important bridge from affective communities of sentimentality to active political communities of the nation, arguing that the performance of virtue on stage served to foster the passage from private emotion to public virtue and allowed groups such as women, children, and the poor who were excluded from direct political participation to imagine a new and inclusive social and political structure. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois, and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the nineteenth century. Her book revitalizes and enriches our understanding of the significance of sentimental drama, showing that it was central to the way that drama both shaped and was shaped by political culture.
Author : William Thomas Laprade
Publisher : Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Conspiracy
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Originally presented as the author's thesis, John Hopkins University, 1909.
Author : Ulrich Broich
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825874278
The outbreak of revolution in Paris in 1789 forced Britain into a political and military conflict that had a profound impact on politics, economy, public discourse and cultural life well into the 19th century. The essays collected here examine the various responses to the revolution and the significant changes wrought within Britain by the events. Some essays discuss the ideological divisions within Britain and Ireland. Others take a closer look at the media and the debate on the press, and reinvestigate responses to the revolution by prominent contemporaries such as William Godwin, Dugald Stewart, and William Wordsworth.
Author : Michael T Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 100042006X
This six-volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political reform in the late 18th century. Volume 1 spans 1792 to 1794.
Author : Michael T Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2328 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1000420167
This six volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political reform in the late 18th century.
Author : Theodore Godfrey Grieder (Jr.)
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1957
Category : France
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2018
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This Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home, most famously by Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. It contains specially commissioned essays, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading.