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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katherine MannheimerPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780813950433ISBN 10: 0813950430 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 31 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Of Heirs and ""Bold Purloiner[s]"": Shadwell's Alternative Models of Literary Inheritance in The Lancashire Withces and The Squire of Alsatia 2. ""Can my Imagination feel?"": Reading, Theatricality, and the Mind-Body Problem in Aphra Behn's The Lucky Chance and The Emperor of the Moon 3. Textual Timelessness, Performative Time: Posterity in Congreve's Love for Love and The Way of the World 4. ""Take this sad Ballad, which I bought at Fair"": Pastoral Performance and Print Capitalism in John Gay's The What D'Ye Call It and The Beggar's Opera ConclusionReviewsMannheimer is a brilliant close reader, and makes an original and substantial contribution to eighteenth-century literary studies. Her interpretive framework grows organically out of the drama itself, and the critical and historical contexts that she gracefully weaves together make this a most engaging and beautifully written book. - Marcie Frank, Concordia University, author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen Mannheimer is a brilliant close reader, and makes an original and substantial contribution to eighteenth-century literary studies. Her interpretive framework grows organically out of the drama itself, and the critical and historical contexts that she gracefully weaves together make this a most engaging and beautifully written book. --Marcie Frank, Concordia University, author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen Author InformationKatherine Mannheimer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester and the author of Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire: ""The Scope in Ev’ry Page."" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |