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The Embodiment of Characters : The Representation of Physical Experience on Stage and in Print, 1728-1749 / Jones DeRitter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Cultural StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812232653
  • 9781512801774
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/27/09033 20
LOC classification:
  • PR448.B63
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Life Among the “Otamys”: Gender and Demography in The Beggar’s Opera -- 2. “The storm that lust began must end in blood”: The Physical Economy of The London Merchant -- 3. “Not the Person she conceived me”: The Public Identities of Charlotte Charke -- 4. “So much written about what deserves not the least consideration”: Performance and Physical Experience in Clarissa -- 5. Who She Was and What She Was: Female Characters and Physical Experience in Tom Jones -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: In The Embodiment of Characters, Jones DeRitter examines the connection between the eighteenth-century London stage and the early English novel. DeRitter begins with the sweeping changes decreed by the Stage Licensing Act of 1737, which closed three of London's five legitimate theaters and dictated that every new play would have to be censored and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain's office. Before 1737, reading plays had been a favorite pastime of literate English men and women, after 1737, many of these readers shifted their attention to novels.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Life Among the “Otamys”: Gender and Demography in The Beggar’s Opera -- 2. “The storm that lust began must end in blood”: The Physical Economy of The London Merchant -- 3. “Not the Person she conceived me”: The Public Identities of Charlotte Charke -- 4. “So much written about what deserves not the least consideration”: Performance and Physical Experience in Clarissa -- 5. Who She Was and What She Was: Female Characters and Physical Experience in Tom Jones -- Postscript -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

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In The Embodiment of Characters, Jones DeRitter examines the connection between the eighteenth-century London stage and the early English novel. DeRitter begins with the sweeping changes decreed by the Stage Licensing Act of 1737, which closed three of London's five legitimate theaters and dictated that every new play would have to be censored and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain's office. Before 1737, reading plays had been a favorite pastime of literate English men and women, after 1737, many of these readers shifted their attention to novels.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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