Women, sociability and theatre in Georgian London
- 作者: Russell, Gillian.
- 出版: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2007.
- 版本: 1st paperback.
- 稽核項: xiii, 289 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;70
- 標題: Social life and customs , Fashion , Theater , London (England) , Theater England -- London -- History -- 18th century. , Women England -- London -- Social conditions -- 18th century. , Fashion England -- London -- History -- 18th century. , London (England) Social life and customs -- 18th century. , Social conditions , Women , History
- ISBN: 0521147743 , 9780521147743
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規畫主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界 Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-279) and index. The Circe of Soho : Teresa Cornelys and Carlisle House -- Harmonic routs and midnight revels : the politics of masquerade -- 'Dissipation's hydra reign' : Almack's and the Coterie -- 'Welcome to the pleasure dome' : the London Pantheon -- Lady Bab and Mrs. Ab : the woman of fashion and the theatre -- 'Alias, alias, alias' : the trials of the Duchess of Kingston -- 'Lady Teazle's occupation's o'er' -- Conclusion.
- 摘要: In this highly-illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of the 18th century, Russell reveals new perspectives on the influence of these institutions on the theatre and on canonical plays such as The School for Scandal, as well as suggesting a pre-history for British Romanticism.
- 系統號: 005257937
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Mid-eighteenth-century London witnessed a major expansion in public culture as a result of a rapidly commercialising society. Of the many sites of entertainment, the most celebrated (and often notorious) were the Carlisle House club, the Pantheon, and the Ladies Club or Coterie. In this major study of these institutions and the fashionable sociability they epitomised, Gillian Russell examines how they transformed metropolitan cultural life. Associated with lavish masquerades, excesses of fashion, such as elaborate hairstyles, and scandalous intrigues, these venues suggested a feminisation of public life which was profoundly threatening, not least to the theatre of the period. In this highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of the eighteenth century, Russell reveals fresh perspectives on the theatre and on canonical plays such as The School for Scandal, as well as suggesting a prehistory for British Romanticism.
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