Isabel Karremann, Anja Müller

Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England (eBook, ePUB)

Public Negotiations, Literary Discourses, Topography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit. This volume engages in a critical discussion of the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class, gender, nationality, religion, political factions and age, and the media available at the time, including novels, newspapers, trial reports, images and the theatre. Representative case studies are the arrival of children's literature as a genre, the creation of masculine citizenship in Defoe's novels, the performance of gendered and national identities by the actress Kitty Clive or in plays by Henry Fielding and Richard Sheridan, fashion and the public sphere, the emergence of the Whig and Tory parties, the radical culture of the 1790s, and visual representations of domestic and imperial landscape. Recognizing the proliferation of identities in the epoch, these essays explore the ways in which different media determined constructions of identity and were in turn shaped by them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351918855
• Artikelnr.: 49336059

Autorenporträt

Isabel Karremann is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitÿt Munich, Germany. Anja Mÿller is Chair of English Literature and Culture at Universitÿt Siegen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction: mediating identities in 18th-century
England, Isabel Karremann; Identifying an age-specific English literature
for children, Anja Mÿller; Found and lost in mediation: manly identity in
Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Isabel Karremann; Gender identity in
sentimental and pornographic fiction: Pamela and Fanny Hill, Franz Meier;
Paratexts and the construction of author identities: the preface as
threshold and thresholds in the preface, Katharina Rennhak; Owning
identity: the 18th-century actress and theatrical property, Felicity
Nussbaum; Constructing identity in 18th-century comedy: schools of scandal,
observation and performance, Anette Pankratz; Material sites of discourse
and the discursive hybridity of identities, Uwe Böker; Constructions of
political identity: the example of impeachments, Anna-Christina
Giovanopoulos; The public sphere, mass media, fashion and the identity of
the individual, Christian Huck; Topography and aesthetics: mapping the
British identity in painting, Isabelle Baudino; The panoramic gaze: the
control of illusion and the illusion of control, Michael Meyer;
Peripatetics of citizenship in the 1790s, Christoph Houswitschka; Critical
responses, Rainer Emig, Hans-Peter Wagner and Christoph Heyl; Bibliography;
Index.