Aparna Gollapudi

Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747

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Produktbeschreibung

In the first half of the eighteenth century, a comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. This title looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly in relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism.

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The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Gollapudi argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. She examines reform comedies by Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly within the context of emergent trends in finance capitalism, imperial nationalism, political factionalism, domestic ideology and middling class-consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781409417965
• ISBN-10: 1409417964
• Artikelnr.: 41562226

Autorenporträt

Aparna Gollapudi is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Seeing is Believing: Performing
Reform in Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift; Chapter 2 Sincerity as
Spectacle: Susanna Centlivre's The Gamester and George Farquhar's The
Inconstant; Chapter 3 Reforming the Reformer: Female Gaze and Rake Reform
in Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband and The Lady's Last Stake; Chapter
4 Jokes and Party Strokes: Whig Ideology and Wife-Reform in Richard
Steele's The Tender Husband and Charles Johnson's The Masquerade; Chapter 5
Horns, Whores, and Happy Marriages: Reforming Jealousy in Charles Johnson's
The Generous Husband and Benjamin Hoadly's The Suspicious Husband;
Afterword;