Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: essays on his works and life
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012
Schriftenreihe:British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
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Beschreibung:Chronology of Thomas Holcroft: Life and Works; Introduction; Part 1 Becoming a Man of Letters; 1 Developmental Stages: Thomas Holcroft's Early Fiction, Elocutionary Rhetoric, and the Function of the Theater in the Progress of Character; 2 Holcroft and The Art of Sinking in Poetry; 3 Holcroft's Translations of the 1780s and Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de Lichtfield; Part 2 Reform on the Stage; 4 Rewriting Shylock: Thomas Holcroft, Semitic Discourse, and Anti-Semitism on the English Stage
5 "Perfectly harmless and secure"?: The Political Contexts of Thomas Holcroft's He's Much to Blame6 Illustrating Thomas Holcroft's A Tale of Mystery as Physiognomical Tableaux Vivant; Part 3 Reform in the Novel; 7 Language and Landscape in Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives; 8 Examining Jacobin Sexual Politics in Anna St. Ives; 9 Contradictory Strictures: Print, Speech, and the Problem of Mediation in Holcroft's Hugh Trevor; Part 4 Re-Viewing the Life; 10 Thomas Holcroft and Reviewing Traditions; 11 Transforming Experience into Reform in Holcroft's Memoirs and Literary Works
12 Politics for the People: Thomas Holcroft's Proto-Marxism
The first essay collection devoted to Thomas Holcroft's life and work, this volume is a reassessment of his contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography and political philosophy. The contributors situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within on-going explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:266 pages
ISBN:9781409444381
1409444384
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