David Francis Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199642847
- eISBN:
- 9780191738869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199642847.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama, 18th-century Literature
This introduction provides a broad overview of the primary argument and major themes of the book. It offers a critique of the bifurcation of theatrical and political activities that has long been a ...
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This introduction provides a broad overview of the primary argument and major themes of the book. It offers a critique of the bifurcation of theatrical and political activities that has long been a prevailing feature of scholarly approaches to Sheridan, and argues that a study which reads his political activism, playwriting, and theatre management as thoroughly intertwined can function to illuminate and refine our understanding of the broader interfaces between drama and politics at work in Georgian cultureLess
This introduction provides a broad overview of the primary argument and major themes of the book. It offers a critique of the bifurcation of theatrical and political activities that has long been a prevailing feature of scholarly approaches to Sheridan, and argues that a study which reads his political activism, playwriting, and theatre management as thoroughly intertwined can function to illuminate and refine our understanding of the broader interfaces between drama and politics at work in Georgian culture
Anshuman A. Mondal
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070044
- eISBN:
- 9781781701102
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070044.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing ...
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This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing all of Amitav Ghosh's writings to date, it takes a thematic approach that enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the ‘postcolonial’ — in particular, its relation to postmodernism.Less
This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing all of Amitav Ghosh's writings to date, it takes a thematic approach that enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the ‘postcolonial’ — in particular, its relation to postmodernism.
