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

• Autore: Miller Tice L
• Pubblicazione: Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 812/.309
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life 18th century; United States Intellectual life 19th century; United States In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Entertaining the nation
• ISBN: 0-8093-8748-4; 1-4356-6350-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454074003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theater in the Americas