Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809

Essays on His Works and Life

A.A. Markley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-11575-0 (ISBN)

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Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late eighteenth century. The self-educated son of a cobbler, Holcroft transformed himself into a popular playwright, influential reformist novelist, and controversial political radical. But his work is not important merely because he himself was a remarkable character, but rather because he was a hinge figure between laboring Britons and the dissenting intelligentsia, between Enlightenment traditions and developing 'Romantic' concerns, and between the world of self-made hack writers and that of established critics. Enhanced by an updated and corrected chronology of Holcroft's life and work, key images, and a full bibliography of published scholarship, this volume makes way for more concerted and focused scholarship and teaching on Holcroft. Taken together, the essays in this collection situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within ongoing explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.

Miriam L. Wallace is Professor of English at New College of Florida, and A. A. Markley was Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine, USA.

Introduction, Miriam L. Wallace, A. A. Markley; Part 1 Becoming a Man of Letters; Chapter 1 Developmental Stages, Rick Incorvati; Chapter 2 Holcroft and The Art of Sinking in Poetry, Anne Chandler; Chapter 3 Holcroft’s Translations of the 1780s and Isabelle de Montolieu’s Caroline de Lichtfield, Miriam L. Wallace; Part 2 Reform on the Stage; Chapter 4 Rewriting Shylock, Jeremy W. Webster; Chapter 5 “Perfectly harmless and secure”?, Philip Cox; Chapter 6 Illustrating Thomas Holcroft’s A Tale of Mystery as Physiognomical Tableaux Vivant, Diane Long Hoeveler; Part 3 Reform in the Novel; Chapter 7 Language and Landscape in Thomas Holcroft’s Anna St. Ives, Ian Newman; Chapter 8 Examining Jacobin Sexual Politics in Anna St. Ives, Hilary N. Fezzey; Chapter 9 Contradictory Strictures, Jonathan Sachs; Part 4 Re-Viewing the Life; Chapter 10 Thomas Holcroft and Reviewing Traditions, Antonia Forster; Chapter 11 Transforming Experience into Reform in Holcroft’s Memoirs and Literary Works, A. A. Markley; Chapter 12 Politics for the People, W. M. Verhoeven;

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-11575-4 / 1138115754
ISBN-13	978-1-138-11575-0 / 9781138115750
Zustand	Neuware