Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's «The Rover» and «The Feign'd Courtezans»

ISBN-13: 9783034326483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Tiziana Febronia Arena

Opis

The book pursues an in-depth investigation of the process whereby female identity was performatively negotiated on the Restoration stage by women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and of how a new articulation of social space contributed to the formation of a potentially emancipatory sense of gendered selfhood.

Spis treści

Introduction - Chapter 1: The Power of Representation: the Political Use of the Theatre in the Seventeenth Century - Chapter 2: The Woman in the Shadow: Woman's position in the Patriarchal Society - Chapter 3: Performing the Masculine: Masculine domination in Behn's works - Chapter 4: Talking Revolution - Chapter 5: Portrait of a Lady Cavalier - Chapter 6: Masking the drama: a space for Revolution - Conclusion - References

O autorze

Dr Arena is Adjunct Professor of English for Specific Purposes at the University of Catania. She completed her PhD in English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Catania. She presented and published some papers on Aphra Behn, the Restoration theatre and Libertinism. She has been involved in the preparation of secondary school English teachers in Italy. Her research focuses on gender studies, English Restoration theatre and female subjectivity in literature. Her other research interests include cross-dressing, masquerade and Carnival and the intersections between literature, feminism and media.