Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage
Author:   M. Anderson
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
ISBN:  

9780312239381


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   28 March 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage


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Author:   M. Anderson
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780312239381


ISBN 10:   0312239386
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   28 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Funny Women 'Divertisement and Delight': Comedy, Contract, and Pleasure You Irreplaceable You: Behn's Unalienable Bodies and Comic Exchange Coming to Market: Centlivre and the Promise of Contract Rule, Britania: Women and the National Community in Cowley's Comedies Beyond the Law: Contract, Divorce, and Community in Inchbald's Comedies Epilogue

Reviews

'...a wonderfully thoughtful (and useful) first book...presented crisply and persuasively, with an engaging humor...' - Choice 'There is much of interest provided in this book...' - Wendy Jones Nakanishi, English Studies - A journal of English Language and Literature 'Anderson's focus takes readers to a lively comic literature on women and marriage, an approach which makes her overall treatment all the more readable and entertaining'. - Maureen E. Mulvihill, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research


'...a wonderfully thoughtful (and useful) first book...presented crisply and persuasively, with an engaging humor...' - Choice 'There is much of interest provided in this book...' - Wendy Jones Nakanishi, English Studies - A journal of English Language and Literature 'Anderson's focus takes readers to a lively comic literature on women and marriage, an approach which makes her overall treatment all the more readable and entertaining'. - Maureen E. Mulvihill, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research


Author Information

MISTY G. ANDERSON is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She has published articles on the state of eighteenth-century studies, MTV, Jane Austen, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Barker, and John Cleland. This is her first book.

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