Kathleen Wilson

Strolling Players of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656-1833

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass London, Kingston and Calcutta, Fort Marlborough in Sumatra, St. Helena and Port Jackson in New South Wales as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural tradition through their own performances, as Englishness became also a production of non-English peoples across the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108846141
• Artikelnr.: 70911076

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Wilson is Distinguished Professor of History at Stony Brook University. Her prizewinning scholarship focuses on questions of identity, empire and culture in the long eighteenth century. Previous books include The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785 (1995), The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (2003) and A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 (2004). A former Guggenheim and NEH Fellow and past president of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Wilson lives with her human and nonhuman relations in Manhattan and Long Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Strollers without Borders; Introduction: Britain's Theatrical
Empire; Part I. Playing: 1. Peripheralizing the Spheres: Theatrical
Assemblages of the Imperial Provinces; 2. Rowe's Fair Penitent as Global
History: Colonial Family Strategies and the Imperatives of Nation; 3. The
Lure of the Other: Jews, Nabobs and Enslaved Africans in a Transcolonial
Imaginary; Part II. Theatres of Empire: 4. Performances of Freedom:
Jamaican Maroons in Imperial Transit; 5. Blackface Empire: or, the Slavery
Meridian; 6. Zanga's Colony: Revenge in Sydney; Part III. East India
Company Peripheries and the History of Modernity; 7. Performing The Wonder
in Sumatra: Theatrical Ethnography in a New World History; 8. In
Conclusion: Napoleonic Gothic, or St. Helena as Center of the British
World.