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Print and Performance in the 1820s - Improvisation, Speculation, Identity (Paperback, New Ed)
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Print and Performance in the 1820s - Improvisation, Speculation, Identity (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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During the 1820s, British society saw transformations in
technology, mobility, and consumerism that accelerated the spread
of information. This timely study reveals how bestselling
literature, popular theatre, and periodical journalism
self-consciously experimented with new media. It presents an age
preoccupied with improvisation and speculation - a mode of
behaviour that dominated financial and literary markets, generating
reflections on risk, agency, and the importance of public opinion.
Print and Performance in the 1820s interprets a rich constellation
of fictional texts and theatrical productions that gained
popularity among middle-class metropolitan audiences through
experiments with intersecting fantasy worlds and acutely described
real worlds. Providing new contexts for figures such as Byron and
Scott, and recovering the work of lesser-known contemporaries
including Charles Mathews' character impersonations and the
performances of celebrity improvvisatore Tommaso Sgricci, Angela
Esterhammer explores the era's influential representations of the
way identity is constructed, performed, and perceived.
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