Print and Performance in the 1820s - Improvisation, Speculation, Identity

List of contents

List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: being there, circa 1824; 2. Periodical performances: Blackwood's, Knight's, and The Bachelor's Wife; 3. Mediating improvisation and improvising mediation: Tommaso Sgricci and periodical culture; 4. Personal identity, impersonation, and Charles Mathews: who is he when he's at home?; 5. Theodore Hook's Sayings and Doings on the page and the stage: 'a curious matter of speculation'; 6. Speculating on property: to and from the village with Galt, Mitford, and Scott; 7. Scottish fictions of 1824: permutations of identity; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Angela Esterhammer, FRSC, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt. Her previous books include The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (2001), Romanticism and Improvisation, 1750–1850 (2008), and the edited volume Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (2002).

Summary

Print and Performance in the 1820s explores a key decade of cultural change, focusing on fiction, periodicals, and theatrical performances in metropolitan centres such as London, Edinburgh, and Paris. Combining literary and cultural studies with media and performance history, it illuminates the importance of the late-Romantic age.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Esterhammer, Angela (University of Toronto) Esterhammer, Esterhammer Angela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108493956
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49395-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade