Author : Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1995
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780472065981
Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
Author : Nina Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351672622
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the "transnational" and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field, seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies.
Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139448048
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438109105
An accessible one-volume encyclopedia, this addition to the Literary Movements series is a comprehensive reference guide to the history and development of feminist literature, from early fairy tales to works by great women writers of today. Hundred
Author : Dale M. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316176002
The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers – from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers. This volume immerses readers in a new dialogue about the range and depth of women's literature in the United States and allows them to trace the ever-evolving shape of the field.
Author : Manly, Inc.
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 4512 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438140770
Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
Author : Ralph J. Poole
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1443809535
This new collection of essays on American stage and film melodrama assesses the multifarious and contradictory uses to which melodrama has been put in American culture from the late 18th century to the present. It focuses on the various ways in which the genre has periodically intervened in debates over race, class, gender and sexuality and, in this manner, has also persistently contributed to the formation and transformation of American nationhood: from the debates over who constitutes the newborn nation in the Early Republic, to the subsequent conflict over abolition and the discussion of gender roles at the turn of the 19th century, to the fervent class struggles of the 1930s and the critiques of domestic containment in the 1950s, as well as to ongoing debates of gender, race, and sexuality today. Addressing these issues from a variety of different angles, including historical, aesthetic, cultural, phenomenological, and psychological approaches, these essays present a complex picture of the cultural work and passionate politics accomplished by melodrama over the course of the past two centuries, particularly at times of profound social change.
Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521662246
First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.
Author : Sarah Knott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838748
In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity for sympathy and sensitivity to the world. For individuals, it offered a means of self-transformation. For a nation lacking a monarch, state religion, or standing army, sensibility provided a means of cohesion. National independence and social interdependence facilitated one another. What Sarah Knott calls "the sentimental project" helped a new kind of citizen create a new kind of government. Knott paints sensibility as a political project whose fortunes rose and fell with the broader tides of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Moving beyond traditional accounts of social unrest, republican and liberal ideology, and the rise of the autonomous individual, she offers an original interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformation of self and society.
Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199731497
This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
