The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, both enriching and complicating generic distinctions. Artists were alive to the power of the arts to reflect and shape reality, and their audience was quick to turn to the arts as performative pleasures and critical lenses through which to understand a changing world. This collection's eminent authors discuss estate design, musicalized theater, the visual spectacle of musical performance, stage machinery and set designs, the social uses of painting and singing, drama's reflection of a transformed military infrastructure, and the arts of memory and of laughter.
Contributions by:
Anna Battigelli,
Steven N Zwicker,
Amanda Eubanks Winkler,
Paul Hammond
Edited by:
Anna Battigelli
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 54g
ISBN: 9781644533116
ISBN 10: 1644533111
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 24 November 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments vii Introduction ANNA BATTIGELLI 1 Laughter from on High: The Arts of Contempt in Restoration England STEVEN N. ZWICKER 2 Staging Davenant; or, Macbeth, the Musical AMANDA EUBANKS WINKLER 3 The Arts of Memory in Absalom and Achitophel: Dryden’s Response to Milton and Marvell PAUL HAMMOND 4 Peacocks and Rainbows: Visual Spectacle and Allegorical Performance in Albion and Albanius ANDREW R. WALKLING 5 “The Dyrham Decades”: The Cultural Connections of an English Country House, 1690–1720 DAVID HOPKINS 6 Domenico Scarlatti: “Jesting with Art” CEDRIC D. REVERAND II 7 Queen Anne’s Other Women PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER 8 Anne Donnellan: Friend of the Arts ELLEN T. HARRIS 9 Responding to Emma in 1816: Reviewers, Readers,and “Opinions” PETER SABOR 10 Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart: Eighteenth-Century Poetry across Time and Form MELISSA SCHOENBERGER Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Anna Battigelli is a professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh. She is the editor of Art and Artifact in Austen (2020) and the author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (1998). Together with Laura Stevens, she edited a special topics issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature on Eighteenth-Century English Women and Catholicism (2012).
