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UNINA9911108973103321 |
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Autore |
Kaul Suvir |
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Eighteenth-century British literature and postcolonial studies / / Suvir Kaul |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009 |
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1-282-08801-7 |
9786612088018 |
0-7486-3456-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Postcolonial literary studies |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Imperialism in literature |
Postcolonialism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-184) and index. |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Introduction 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature'; Chapter 1 'Theatres of Empire'; Chapter 2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose'; Chapter 3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture'; Chapter 4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere'; Conclusion 'Gazing into the Future'; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index |
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This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more engaged and fascinating light.' |
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UNINA9911137564803321 |
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Autore |
Hollis Tim |
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Ain't that a knee-slapper : rural comedy in the twentieth century / / Tim Hollis |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008 |
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1-282-55563-4 |
9786612555633 |
1-60473-953-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Rural comedies - United States - History and criticism |
American wit and humor - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: What This Book Ain't; Chapter One: Let's See What's Going on Down in Pine Ridge; Chapter Two: Radio Rules the Roost; Chapter Three: Hillbillies Go Hollywood; Chapter Four: Feudin', Fussin', and A-Fightin'; Chapter Five: Peace in the Valley; Chapter Six: What It Was, Was the Fifties; Chapter Seven: The Country Broadcasting System; Chapter Eight: From Cartoon Alley to Kornfield Kounty; Chapter Nine: They're in a Heap o' Trouble; Chapter Ten: Still Fertile Ground; Bibliography; Index |
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There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the ""Redneck"" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century , author Tim Hollis traces the evolution of this classic American form of humor in the mass media, beginning with the golden age of radio, when such comedians as Bob Burns, Judy Canova, and Lum and Abner kept listeners laughing. The book then moves into the motion pic |
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