Lothario''s Corpse - Libertine Drama and the Long-Running Restoration, 1700-1832

Lothario’s Corpse explores the persistent appeal of Restoration libertine drama (and its absolutist heroes and scenarios of lawless license) in the century following its supposed disappearance from the British stage. Tracing the stage libertine’s haunting of post-1688 culture, Gustafson illustrates how its literary and political manifestations document a fantasy of sovereign power at the heart of the emergent liberal imagination.

Sommario

Introduction: The Long-Running Restoration

1          Corpsing Lothario

2          Debating Dorimant

3          Stuarts without End

4          Libertines and Liberalism

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Daniel Gustafson is an assistant professor of English at The City College of New York, CUNY.

 

Riassunto

Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain's eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Daniel Gustafson traces libertine drama’s persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Daniel Gustafson
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781684482122
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-212-2
• Pagine: 238
• Serie: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata