Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 /

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Autore principale: O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Sommario:
  • 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".