Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage

ISBN-13: 9781349386932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 262 str.

Misty G. Anderson; M. Anderson

Opis

Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800.

Recenzje

'...a wonderfully thoughtful (and useful) first book...presented crisply and persuasively, with an engaging humor...' - Choice

'There is much of interest provided in this book...' - Wendy Jones Nakanishi, English Studies - A journal of English Language and Literature

'Anderson's focus takes readers to a lively comic literature on women and marriage, an approach which makes her overall treatment all the more readable and entertaining'. - Maureen E. Mulvihill, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: Funny Women 'Divertisement and Delight': Comedy, Contract, and Pleasure You Irreplaceable You: Behn's Unalienable Bodies and Comic Exchange Coming to Market: Centlivre and the Promise of Contract Rule, Britania: Women and the National Community in Cowley's Comedies Beyond the Law: Contract, Divorce, and Community in Inchbald's Comedies Epilogue

O autorze

MISTY G. ANDERSON is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She has published articles on the state of eighteenth-century studies, MTV, Jane Austen, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Barker, and John Cleland. This is her first book.