The Rhetorical Feminine : Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742

ISBN-13: 9780198186366

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Opis

This book takes a fresh look at theatre - including the important new genre of opera - in early modern Germany. Taking as a starting-point the importance of rhetoric in early modern boys' education, this study considers the relationship between theatre, persuasion, and social stability, and looks at how the stage helps to develop ideas about women and non-Christian peoples which have not lost their relevance today.

Recenzje

Colvin's book is perhaps the most critically sophisticated monograph to appear in the field of early modern German literature.

O autorze

1990-92, Hanseatic Scholar, University of Hamburg; 1992-95, Senior Scholar, Christ Church Oxford; 1995-97, Junior Research Fellow, St John's College Oxford; 1997, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh