The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater
Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
Seiten 7 - 26 -
The Male Stage
Seiten 27 - 46 -
Liminal Spaces
Seiten 47 - 68 -
Partisan Allegories of Race and Desire
Seiten 69 - 96 -
American Theater and the Quest for a Republican Identity
Seiten 97 - 118 -
The Theatricality of Sexual Difference in Late-Eighteenth-Century America
Seiten 119 - 142 -
Sowing the Seeds of Virtue
Seiten 143 - 162 -
Porous Spheres in Time of War
Seiten 163 - 178 -
"O'er us, rovers free"
Seiten 179 - 210 -
Contributors
Seiten 211 - 216
3 February 2022, 216 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-5253-0
File size: 3.49 MB
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