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Katherine Mannheimer

Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature

English · Hardback

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About the author

Katherine Mannheimer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester and the author of Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire: "The Scope in Ev'ry Page."

Summary

Argues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and systematically manipulating this tension, these authors’ works sought to court the reader while at the same time also challenging emergent concepts of ‘literature’.

Product details

Authors	Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher	University of Virginia Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	20.12.2023

EAN	9780813950426
ISBN	978-0-8139-5042-6
No. of pages	312
Subject	Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918

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