Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years War; Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel OQuinn 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; OQuinn 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; OQuinn 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; OQuinns 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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I strongly recommend this book to art and architecture historians in general ...By CustomerNicholas Temple walks his readers through Renaissance Rome. Renovatio Urbis anchors the construction of the new Saint Peters Basilica as the starting point for a massive urban redevelopment project. Temples text moves readers to take an imaginary walk along the Via Giulia and Lungotevere to consider the massive reconstruction efforts of the powerful Della Rovere pope. Julius II (1503-1513). This book outlines papal projects that aimed to re-plumb the streets of Rome for ceremonial purposes. It provides a deeper understanding of monumental architecture as a rhetorical device. one that not only inspires but also defines an ordered world. I strongly recommend this book to art and architecture historians in general and historians of Rome. in particular. Readers will not be disappointed.
