{"product_id":"cultural-readings-of-restoration-and-eighteenth-century-english-theater-9780820337890","title":"Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. Douglas Canfield | Deborah Payne Fisk | Deborah Payne Fisk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the \"innate worth\" of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46869929722007,"sku":"9780820337890","price":3900.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820337890.webp?v=1769995132","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cultural-readings-of-restoration-and-eighteenth-century-english-theater-9780820337890","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}