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Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745
Elaine M. McGirr
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Hardback. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and power, the construction of an ideal masculinity, and the shape of a new, British—rather than English—national identity. An analysis of this cultural language and its different valence over time not only unpacks the overlap between aesthetic and political debate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but also firmly grounds the eighteenth-century's revolution in taste and ... Read more
This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and power, the construction of an ideal masculinity, and the shape of a new, British—rather than English—national identity. An analysis of this cultural language and its different valence over time not only unpacks the overlap between aesthetic and political debate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but also firmly grounds the eighteenth-century's revolution in taste and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491067
SKU
V9781611491067
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About Elaine M. McGirr
Elaine McGirr is senior lecturer in the departments of drama and English at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Reviews for Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745
McGirr offers a sound treatment of the heroic mode's relationship to the politics of its period.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Studies