Gendering the Nation: Identity Politics and the English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788125051299
Length
x+210p., 23cm.
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In the context of exploring the gender-culture interface in the Britain of the past, the volume examines the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the eighteenth century in an attempt to explore nation-building. It studies the effect of the cultural phenomenon of sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for a people who saw themselves as a polite, genteel nation. It studies some of the very popular comic plays of the ...
