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The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater

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This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It features essays on well-known early American dr...
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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 216
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: American Culture Studies
Publication Date: 15 October 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837652536
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies

Leopold Lippert (Dr. phil.) teaches American studies at the University of Münster, Germany. He specializes in transnational American studies, performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, as well as early American literature.
Ralph J. Poole is an American-German researcher who teaches as professor of American studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Amongst his publications is a book-length study on the avant-garde tradition in American theater, a book on satirical and autoethnographical cannibal texts and an essay collection on dangerous masculinities. His main research interests are gender and queer studies, popular culture, and transnational American studies.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
The Male Stage 27
Liminal Spaces 47
Partisan Allegories of Race and Desire 69
American Theater and the Quest for a Republican Identity 97
The Theatricality of Sexual Difference in Late-Eighteenth-Century America 119
Sowing the Seeds of Virtue 143
Porous Spheres in Time of War 163
"O'er us, rovers free" 179
Contributors 211