Dillon New World Drama

The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9573-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon explores how new publics were convened and contested around the riotous theatre scenes of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, from England to the Caribbean to the early United States. In the process, she develops a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. The Performative Commons and the Aesthetic Atlantic 1

1. The Colonial Relation 31

2. London 60

3. Transportation 97

4. Charleston 131

5. Kingston 165

6. New York City 215

Notes 263

Bibliography

Index 341

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is Professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere.