Thomas Mcgeary

The Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742 (eBook, ePUB)

The Era of Walpole, Pope, and Handel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805433941
• Artikelnr.: 72330615

Autorenporträt

THOMAS MCGEARY holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain, 1720-1742 (CUP, 2013) and Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 (Boydell, 2022). He has published widely in art history, literature, and music history journals, including Burlington Magazine, British Art Journal, Philological Quarterly, Review of English Studies, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Musical Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Opera and Cultural Politics 1. Rise of Walpole and the Whig
Oligarchy 2. The Royal Academy of Music and Its Audience 3. Bolingbroke and
the Political Opposition 4. Opera and the Luxury Debate 5. Excise and the
Patriot Opposition 6. Opera of the Nobility and the Furor Farinellicus
7. From Excise to the War of Jenkins' Ear 8. A Patriot Vision for Dramatic
Music 9. Opera and the Politics of Taste 10. Opera in Formal Verse Satire
11. War of Jenkins' Ear and the Fall of Walpole 12. The New Dunciad: Opera
and the Triumph of Dulness Coda: The Cultural Work of Opera Bibliography
Index