The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater : : Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices /

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater : : Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices / / ed. by Leopold Lippert, Ralph J. Poole.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Daniele, Daniela,
Detsi, Zoe,
Fellner, Astrid M.,
Ganser, Alexandra,
Ginzburg, Etti Gordon,
Holztrattner, Verena,
Lippert, Leopold,
Pilote, Pauline,
Poole, Ralph J.,
Streif, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Lippert, Leopold,
Poole, Ralph J.,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:American Culture Studies ; 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Male Stage
  • Liminal Spaces
  • Partisan Allegories of Race and Desire
  • American Theater and the Quest for a Republican Identity
  • The Theatricality of Sexual Difference in Late-Eighteenth-Century America
  • Sowing the Seeds of Virtue
  • Porous Spheres in Time of War
  • “O’er us, rovers free”
  • Contributors

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