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Author:

Gollapudi, Aparna.

Title:

Moral reform in comedy and culture, 1696-1747 / by Aparna Gollapudi.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xii, 185 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English drama--18th century--History and criticism.
English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Social change in literature.
Social values in literature.
Dramatists, English--18th century--Political and social views.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Theater and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Seeing is believing: performing reform in Colley Cibber's Love's last shift -- Sincerity as spectacle: Susanna Centlivre's The gamester and George Farquhar's The inconstant -- Reforming the reformer: female gaze and rake reform in Colley Cibber's The careless husband and The lady's last stake -- Jokes and party strokes: whig ideology and wife-reform in Richard Steele's The tender husband and Charles Johnson's The masquerade -- Horns, whores, and happy marriages: reforming jealousy in Charles Johnson's The generous husband and Benjamin Hoadly's The suspicious husband -- Afterword.

Series:

Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance

ISBN:

1409417964 (hardccover : alk. paper)
9781409417965 (hardccover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698626355

LCCN:

2011001768

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)