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Author: David O'Shaughnessy (Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9781108498142
ISBN 10: 1108498140
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 01 August 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take 'the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of Oxford 'Contributors to this volume stress the importance of theater as a widespread and 'sociable' form of cultural entertainment (also explored by scholars such as Gillian Russell and Jon Mee), which made it crucial in both shaping and circulating Enlightenment ideals ... these essays show how much theater contributed to the spread of Enlightenment thought and to national politics, as well as how fluid the 'national' in politics could be.' Emily Hodgson Anderson, Review 19 'Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take 'the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of Oxford 'Contributors to this volume stress the importance of theater as a widespread and 'sociable' form of cultural entertainment (also explored by scholars such as Gillian Russell and Jon Mee), which made it crucial in both shaping and circulating Enlightenment ideals ... these essays show how much theater contributed to the spread of Enlightenment thought and to national politics, as well as how fluid the 'national' in politics could be.' Emily Hodgson Anderson, Review 19
Advance praise: 'Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take 'the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of Oxford Advance praise: `Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take `the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of Oxford
Author Information
David O'Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on eighteenth-century theatre studies, including William Godwin and the Theatre (2010). Most recently, he edited 'Networks of Aspiration: The London Irish of the Eighteenth Century' which was a special issue of the journal Eighteenth-Century Life and co-edited The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (2018).
