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Entertaining crisis in the Atlantic imperium, 1770-1790
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Entertaining crisis in the Atlantic imperium, 1770-1790 / Daniel O'Quinn.
ISBN
9780801899317 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801899311 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 20, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-414) and index.
Contents
Introduction : entertainment, mediation and the future of empire
Diversions. The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures
Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space
Regime Change. To rise in greater splendor : John Andre's Errant knights
"The body" of David Garrick : Richard Brinsley Sheridan, America and the ends of theatre
Celebrations. Which is the man? remediation, interruption and the celebration of martial masculinity
Days and nights of the living dead : Handelmania
Coda : "in praise of the oak, its advantage and prosperity".
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