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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154980903321

Titolo

Mediating identities in eighteenth-century England : public negotiations, literary discourses, topography / / edited by Isabel Karremann, Anja Muller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91885-0

1-138-37974-3

1-315-24937-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

KarremannIsabel

MullerAnja <1969 September 24->

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, English, in literature

Identity (Psychology) and mass media - England

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Mediation - England - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Identifying an age-specific English literature for children / Anja Muller -- 2. Found and lost in mediation : manly identity in Defoe's A journal of the plague year / Isabel Karremann -- 3. Gender identity in sentimental and pornographic fiction : Pamela and Fanny Hill / Franz Meier -- 4. Paratexts and the construction of author identities : the preface as threshold and thresholds in the preface / Katharina Rennhak -- 5. Owning identity : the eighteenth-century actress and theatrical property / Felicity Nussbaum -- 6. Constructing identity in eighteenth-century comedy : schools of scandal, observation and performance / Anette Pankratz -- 7. Material sites of discourse and the discursive hybridity of identities / Uwe Boker -- 8. Constructions of political identity : the example of impeachments / Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos -- 9. The public sphere, mass media, fashion and the identity of the individual / Christian Huck -- 10. Topography and aesthetics : mapping the British identity in painting / Isabelle Baudino



-- 11. The panoramic gaze : the control of illusion and the illusion of control / Michael Meyer -- 12. Peripatetics of citizenship in the 1790s / Christoph Houswitschka -- 13. Critical responses / Rainer Emig, Hans-Peter Wagner, Chrisoph Heyl.