Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century
by
Chandrava Chakravarty
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite,...