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The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
Cynthia A. Kierner
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Description for The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
Paperback. With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. Num Pages: 147 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers.
Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
Number of Pages
147
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814747933
SKU
V9780814747933
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About Cynthia A. Kierner
Cynthia A. Kierner is professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America and Revolutionary America: Sources and Interpretation.
Reviews for The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
I can think of no other text of the period that lays out the drive toward transparency more clearly or denigrates coquettes and libertines more entertainingly. The play is a pivotal piece of American cultural history
Norma Basch,author of Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians The Contrast makes a real contribution to the existing scholarship ... Read more
Norma Basch,author of Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians The Contrast makes a real contribution to the existing scholarship ... Read more