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  • National myth and imperial fantasy[electronic resource] :representations of British identity on the early eighteenth-century stage /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 822.5093241
    書名/作者: National myth and imperial fantasy : representations of British identity on the early eighteenth-century stage // Louise H. Marshall.
    作者: Marshall, Louise H.
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, c2008.
    面頁冊數: vii, 223 p.
    標題: English drama - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: Colonies in literature.
    標題: Literature and society - History - 18th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Politics and literature - History - 18th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780230584235
    ISBN: 0230584233
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Introduction: Dramatising Britain: Nation, Fantasy and the London Stage, 1719-1745 -- AncientBritons and Liberty -- Kings, Ministers and Favourites, the National Myth in Peril -- Shakespeare, the National Scaffold -- Britain, Empire and Julius Caesar -- Turks, Christians and Imperial Fantasy-- Conclusion: History, Fantasy and the Staging of Britishness -- Bibliography -- Index --.
    摘要、提要註: Although eighteenth-century drama has been dismissed as stylistically homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, and even politically complacent, National Myth and Imperial Fantasy reveals the intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays. As a body of texts, these plays disclose the conflicts and concerns of contemporary political and private lives, creating, for modern readers, a picture of the period's instabilities. Through their often messy dramatisations of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification, they reflect a world of contrasts, where the shrinking globe gives rise to increasing commercial and imperial possibilities, and where fantasies and mythologies of Britishness vie to construct a cohesive image of the nation as adominant colonial power. Examining representations of the nation's imagined patriotic predecessors and historical enemies, both foreign and domestic, National Myth and Imperial Fantasy offers one of the first close readings of a series of lesser known yet historically vital dramas.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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