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Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot
formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist
emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely
a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Aparna Gollapudi
argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and
challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at
reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna
Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly in
relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism, imperial
nationalism, political factionalism, domestic ideology, and
middling class-consciousness. Within the context of the cultural
anxieties engendered by these developments, Gollapudi suggests, the
reform comedies must be seen not as cliched and moralistic
productions but as responses to vital ideological shifts and
cultural transvaluations that impose a reassuring moral schema on
everyday conduct. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written,
Gollapudi's study shows that reform comedies covered a range of
contemporary concerns from party politics to domestic harmony and
are crucial for understanding eighteenth-century literature and
culture.
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