Amy Garnai

Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama

Reception and Afterlives

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Produktbeschreibung

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality. This volume authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781684484430
• ISBN-10: 168448443X
• Artikelnr.: 63732393

Autorenporträt

AMY GARNAI teaches at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the author of Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald, and her essays have been published in Women's Writing, SEL, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Wordsworth Circle, and The Review of English Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Thomas Holcroft and the Treason Trials
Chapter Two: The Road to Ruin and its Afterlives
Chapter Three: Radicalism, Authorship and Sincerity in Holcroft's Later
Plays
Chapter Four: Holcroft's Diary and Other Life Writing
Chapter Five: Holcroft's Melodrama
Chapter Six: Final Years and Other Afterlives
Bibliography