Jonathan Mulrooney (Massachusetts College of the Holy Cross)

Romanticism and Theatrical Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

The book uniquely brings together the fields of theater history, print culture, and literature, exploring new contexts around the work of actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats, and reframing the relationship between theater, essays and poetry in Regency London.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781107183872
• ISBN-10: 1107183871
• Artikelnr.: 53545156

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Mulrooney is Professor of English and former Chair of the English Department at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Making of British Theater Audiences: 1. Theater and the daily news
2. Britain's theatrical press 1800¿1830
Part II. Theater and Late Romanticism: 3. Edmund Kean's controversy
4. Hazlitt's romantic occasionalism
5. Keats, Kean, and the poetics of interruption
Bibliography
Index.