The Domino And The Eighteenth Century London Masquerade
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The Domino And The Eighteenth Century London Masquerade
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Author : Meghan Kobza
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-31
The Domino And The Eighteenth Century London Masquerade written by Meghan Kobza and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and written sources will bring together various experiences of the masquerade and expand the existing geographical, chronological, and socio-economic scope of the entertainment beyond the masquerade event itself. This Element will examine the domino's physical and figurative movements from the masquerade warehouse, through eighteenth-century fashionable society, and into print and visual culture. It will draw upon masquerade warehouse records, newspapers, manuscripts, prints, and physical objects to establish a comprehensive understanding of the domino and how it reflected contemporary experiences of the real and imagined masquerade. Analysing the domino through interdisciplinary methodologies illustrates the impact material and visual sources can have on reshaping existing scholarship.
Masquerade And Civilization
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Author : Terry Castle
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1986
Masquerade And Civilization written by Terry Castle and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
Paratext Printed With New English Plays 1660 1700
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Author : Robert D. Hume
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-31
Paratext Printed With New English Plays 1660 1700 written by Robert D. Hume and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Prologues And Epilogues Of Restoration Theater
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Author : Diana Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
Prologues And Epilogues Of Restoration Theater written by Diana Solomon and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.
The Female Thermometer Eighteenth Century Culture And The Invention Of The Uncanny
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Author : Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995-03-24
The Female Thermometer Eighteenth Century Culture And The Invention Of The Uncanny written by Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
Domino
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Author : Ross King
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-04-30
Domino written by Ross King and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-30 with Fiction categories.
By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi's Dome. After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening and his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano...
The Viennese Ballroom In The Age Of Beethoven
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Author : Erica Buurman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-02
The Viennese Ballroom In The Age Of Beethoven written by Erica Buurman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Music categories.
Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.
The Cambridge Companion To English Literature 1740 1830
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Author : Thomas Keymer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-17
The Cambridge Companion To English Literature 1740 1830 written by Thomas Keymer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Masquerade
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Author : Celina Fox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Masquerade written by Celina Fox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Costume categories.
An evocation in contemporary pictures, costume and words of the popular eighteenth century London entertainment
Caricature Unmasked
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Author : Amelia Faye Rauser
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2008
Caricature Unmasked written by Amelia Faye Rauser and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
"This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self."--BOOK JACKET.