Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters

William D. Brewer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

255 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48232-0 (ISBN)

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Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.

William D. Brewer is Professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA.

Introduction 1. The Case of the Pretended Duke of Ormond 2. Richard Cumberland's Imposters 3. Thomas Holcroft's Politicized Imposter and Sycophantic Chameleon 4. Fluid Identities in Hannah Cowley's Universal Masquerade 5. Mary Robinson's Polygraphs 6. James Kenney's Opportunistic, Reformative, and Imitative Chameleons Epilogue: The Perkin Warbeck Debate

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 255 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Performance • Reform • Romanticism • Time • William James
ISBN-10	1-349-48232-3 / 1349482323
ISBN-13	978-1-349-48232-0 / 9781349482320
Zustand	Neuware