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    Online Resource
    Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press
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    gbv_1744323038
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (258 p) , 2 tables
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    ISBN: 9781684482153
    Series Statement: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
    Content: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The Long-Running Restoration -- 1 Corpsing Lothario -- 2 Debating Dorimant -- 3 Stuarts without End -- 4 Libertines and Liberalism -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Content: Lothario’s Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain’s eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While standard theater histories emphasize libertine drama’s gradual disappearance from the nation’s acting repertory following the dispersal of Stuart rule in 1688, Daniel Gustafson traces its persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism. With its radical, absolutist characters and its scenarios of aristocratic license, Restoration libertine drama became a critical force with which to engage in debates about the liberty-loving British subject’s relation to key forms of liberal power and about the troubling allure of lawless sovereign power that lingers at the heart of the liberal imagination. Weaving together readings of a set of literary texts, theater anecdotes, political writings, and performances, Gustafson illustrates how the corpse of the Restoration stage libertine is revived in the period’s debates about liberty, sovereign desire, and the subject’s relation to modern forms of social control. Ultimately, Lothario’s Corpse suggests the “long-running” nature of Restoration theatrical culture, its revived and revised performances vital to what makes post-1688 Britain modern. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    Language: English
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