Kathleen Wilson (Stony Brook State University of New York)

Gebundenes Buch

Strolling Players of Empire

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

Beschreibung

A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had world-making intentions and effects.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 144mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 868g
• ISBN-13: 9781108479783
• ISBN-10: 1108479782
• Artikelnr.: 64172019