The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 - Sarah Burdett

The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815

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Buch | Hardcover
XV, 293 Seiten
2023 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-15473-7 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt
This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe -notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama- facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors. 

Dr Sarah Burdett is Associate Lecturer in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published work in journals including Comparative Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research and Sound Stage Screen, and has also engaged in practice-led theatre research, serving as dramaturge in 2017 on the revival of two nineteenth-century melodramas performed at Portchester Castle and Yorkshire's Georgian Theatre Royal.

1. Introduction: The Armed Woman Enters.- 2. Unbrutifying Man': Armed Women and Male Reform in Elizabeth Inchbald's Dramas.- 3. 'The Ruthless Queen': Lady Macbeth and Margaret of Anjou on the Post-Reign of Terror London Stage.- 4. 'The Merit of her Patriotism': Charlotte Corday in British Drama, 1794-1804.- 5. 'I Drew my Knife and in his Bosom Stuck it': Armed Heroines and Anglo-German Drama.- 6.  'Yet are Spain's Maids No Race of Amazons': Spain's Female Warriors in Anglo-European Drama.- 7. Epilogue: The Armed Woman Exits.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Zusatzinfo XV, 293 p. 9 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 534 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte Gender • heroine • Martial • Melodrama • Napoleon • Revolution • Romantic theatre • Sentimental comedy • Sex • social rebellion • Tragedy • Weapons
ISBN-10 3-031-15473-8 / 3031154738
ISBN-13 978-3-031-15473-7 / 9783031154737
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