LEADER 03287cam a2200445 i 4500001 99128883610606421 005 20230907042103.0 008 220723s2023 sz a b 001 0 eng d 020 3031154738 |qhardcover 020 9783031154737 |qhardcover 020 |z9783031154744 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1336955137 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCF |dYDX 050 4 PR701 |b.B873 2023 082 04 822.6093522 |223 100 1 Burdett, Sarah, |eauthor. 245 14 The arms-bearing woman and British theatre in the age of Revolution, 1789-1815 / |cSarah Burdett. 264 1 Cham, Switzerland : |bPalgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, |c[2023] 300 xv, 293 pages : |bcolor illustrations ; |c22 cm. 336 text |2rdacontent 336 still image |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 490 1 Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors. " -- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 English drama |y18th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 English drama |y19th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Women soldiers in literature. 650 7 English drama. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00910737 650 7 Women soldiers in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01178567 648 7 1700-1899 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 |iebook version : |z9783031154744 830 0 Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print 903 22 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h780609 914 (OCoLC)on1336955137 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20230906 |eprocessed |f1336955137 980 18054507 |f780609 |i119.99 |j98.39 |n40031846901 982 |cf |q32101119645321