The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 4

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 4
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040247784

Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 1

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 1
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2024-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040245951

Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 2

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 2
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040247180

Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 3

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 3
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040249051

Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809

Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809
Author: A.A. Markley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131706366X

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.

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 5

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 5
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040242294

Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 4

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 4
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138761780

Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.

The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre

The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108496253

A far-reaching analysis of censorship's profound impact on Georgian theatrical culture and its development across the long eighteenth century, showcasing how the analysis of plays can be helpful for historical research.

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft, Vol. 4: Memoirs of Bryan Perdue

The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft, Vol. 4: Memoirs of Bryan Perdue
Author: Thomas Holcroft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is one of the greatest English prose writers of the nineteenth century. In this edition texts are drawn from the first published versions, and a full second version provided where he thoroughly recast his own work at a later date. The bulk of his unpublished manuscripts are presented here, among them several works only recently re-discovered.

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files
Author: Judith Pascoe
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0472027956

“The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research.” —Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine During her lifetime (1755–1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like—an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures—but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor’s voice actually sounded. In lively and engaging prose, Pascoe retraces her quixotic search, which leads her to enroll in a “Voice for Actors” class, to collect Lady Macbeth voice prints, and to listen more carefully to the soundscape of her life. Bringing together archival discoveries, sound recording history, and media theory, Pascoe shows how romantic poets’ preoccupation with voices is linked to a larger cultural anxiety about the voice’s ephemerality. The Sarah Siddons Audio Files contributes to a growing body of work on the fascinating history of sound and will engage a broad audience interested in how recording technology has altered human experience.