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Zusatztext 'The essays in this collection each make interesting and nuanced arguments! combining a good mix of wide theoretical considerations with carefully applied readings.' Notes and Queries Informationen zum Autor Isabel Karremann is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich! Germany. Anja Müller is Chair of English Literature and Culture at Universität Siegen! Germany. Klappentext Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies! this title examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. It discusses the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class! gender! nationality! religion! and the media. Zusammenfassung Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this title examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. It discusses the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class, gender, nationality, religion, and the media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction: mediating identities in 18th-century England! Isabel Karremann; Identifying an age-specific English literature for children! Anja Müller; Found and lost in mediation: manly identity in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year! Isabel Karremann; Gender identity in sentimental and pornographic fiction: Pamela and Fanny Hill! Franz Meier; Paratexts and the construction of author identities: the preface as threshold and thresholds in the preface! Katharina Rennhak; Owning identity: the 18th-century actress and theatrical property! Felicity Nussbaum; Constructing identity in 18th-century comedy: schools of scandal! observation and performance! Anette Pankratz; Material sites of discourse and the discursive hybridity of identities! Uwe Böker; Constructions of political identity: the example of impeachments! Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos; The public sphere! mass media! fashion and the identity of the individual! Christian Huck; Topography and aesthetics: mapping the British identity in painting! Isabelle Baudino; The panoramic gaze: the control of illusion and the illusion of control! Michael Meyer; Peripatetics of citizenship in the 1790s! Christoph Houswitschka; Critical responses! Rainer Emig! Hans-Peter Wagner and Christoph Heyl; Bibliography; Index. ...
