LEADER 02867nam 2200325z- 450 001 9910583580303321 005 20220715 010 $a1-4214-2830-X 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023626 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88781 035 $a(oapen)doab88781 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023626 100 $a20202207d2011 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEntertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 330 $aHonorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of the American war for British audiences and how these convergent media attempted to articulate a post-American future for British imperial society.Building on the methodological innovations of his 2005 publication Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, O'Quinn demonstrates how the reconstitution of British imperial subjectivities involved an almost nightly engagement with a rich entertainment culture that necessarily incorporated information circulated in the daily press. Each chapter investigates different moments in the American crisis through the analysis of scenes of social and theatrical performance and through careful readings of works by figures such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Cowper, Hannah More, Arthur Murphy, Hannah Cowley, George Colman, and Georg Friedrich Handel. Through a close engagement with this diverse entertainment archive, O'Quinn traces the hollowing out of elite British masculinity during the 1770s and examines the resulting strategies for reconfiguring ideas of gender, sexuality, and sociability that would stabilize national and imperial relations in the 1780s. Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies. 606 $aLiterature: history and criticism$2bicssc 610 $aLiterature: history & criticism 615 7$aLiterature: history and criticism 700 $aO'Quinn$b Daniel$4auth$01328820 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583580303321 996 $aEntertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790$94422378 997 $aUNINA