Sensation Drama, 1860–1880

An Anthology

Joanna Hofer-Robinson, Beth Palmer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3953-4 (ISBN)

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Features previously unpublished material alongside famous plays This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century. Characterised by exhilarating plots, large-scale special effects and often transgressive characterisation, these dramas are still exciting for modern readers. This anthology lays the foundation for further scholarly work on sensation drama and focuses public attention on to this influential and immensely popular genre. It features five plays from writers including Dion Boucicault and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. These are supported by a substantial critical apparatus, which adds further value to the anthology by providing rich details on performance history and textual variants. The critical introduction situates the genre in its cultural context and argues for the significance of sensation drama to shifting theatrical cultures and practices.
Key Features
Provides detailed critical apparatus to facilitate the study of neglected plays, including performance history, notes and recommended further readingWidens the critical conversation on sensation drama by drawing attention to the work of female playwrightsReprints obscure works by popular authors and shows their involvement with both literary and theatrical cultures

Joanna Hofer-Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the English and Comparative Literary Studies department at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Dickens and Demolition (2018) and Sensation Drama, 1860—1880: An Anthology (2019, co-edited with Beth Palmer), as well as articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century drama and Dickens studies. Dr Beth Palmer is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. She is the author of Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford University Press, 2011) and a co-editor, with Adelene Buckland, of a volume entitled A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (Ashgate, 2011). She is currently editing a special issue of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies with Dr Benjamin Poore at York University

List of IllustrationsList of ArchivesGlossary of Irish Words, as Anglicised in The Colleen BawnIntroduction

Never Too Late to Mend, by C. H. Hazlewood (1859)

The Colleen Bawn, by Dion Boucicault (1860)

Under the Gaslight, by Augustin Daly (1867)

Miss Chester, by Florence Marryat and Charles Young (1872)

The Missing Witness, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1874)

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts
Zusatzinfo	5 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	740 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-3953-5 / 1474439535
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3953-4 / 9781474439534
Zustand	Neuware