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77%OFFDaniel O´quinn - Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790 - 9780801899317 - 9780801899317
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790

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Description for Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790 Hardcover. Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies. Num Pages: 440 pages, 18, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of the American war for British audiences and how these convergent media attempted to articulate a post-American future for British imperial society. Building on the methodological innovations of his 2005 publication Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, O'Quinn demonstrates how the reconstitution of British imperial subjectivities involved an almost nightly engagement with a rich entertainment culture that ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801899317
SKU
9780801899317
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About Daniel O´quinn
Daniel O'Quinn is a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and author of Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, also published by Johns Hopkins. He is also coeditor of the Cambridge Companion to British Theater, 1730-1830 and editor of Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan.

Reviews for Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790
The result of reading such an intense and lengthy study is a feeling of great satisfaction.
Elizabeth Fay Wordsworth Circle Deserves a prominent place among recent publications by literary scholars... investigative, interpretative, and integrative. With Daniel O'Quinn, it is also intrepid. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research This is an erudite and entertaining book, and a brief review like ... Read more

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