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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782129103321

Autore

Miller Tice L

Titolo

Entertaining the nation : American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / / Tice L. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-8093-8748-4

1-4356-6350-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Theater in the Americas

Disciplina

812/.309

Soggetti

American drama - 18th century - History and criticism

American drama - Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 - History and criticism

American drama - 19th century - History and criticism

English drama - 18th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

United States Intellectual life 18th century

United States Intellectual life 19th century

United States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

British drama and the colonial American stage -- American drama of the new republic -- Drama in the age of Jackson -- The age of melodrama -- Realism and American drama.

Sommario/riassunto

In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840's and 1850's, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the