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'Those gay days of wickedness and wit' : the restoration period in popular historiographies (18th-21st Centuries) /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flothow, Dorothea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.
Colección:Wissenschaft und Kunst.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Titel
  • Imprint
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Popular Historiography
  • 1.1 Popular History
  • Defining the Field
  • 1.2 Popular Historiography and History after the Linguistic Turn
  • 1.3 Academic Historiography as 'Privileged Insight into the Past'
  • 1.4 Popular Historiographies and Memory Studies
  • 1.5 Résumé
  • 2 Popular Genres and the Presentation of the Past
  • 2.1 Genres as 'Ways of History-Making'
  • 2.2 Defining Historical Drama
  • 2.2.1 Previous Attempts at Defining Historical Drama
  • 2.2.2 Historical Drama as Popular Historiography
  • 2.3 The Historical Novel
  • 2.3.1 Definitions of the Historical Novel
  • Trends and Issues
  • 2.3.2 Writing History in the Novel
  • 2.4 Historical Crime Fiction and the Historical Romance
  • 2.4.1 Historical Crime Fiction
  • 2.4.2 The Historical Romance
  • 2.5 Résumé
  • 3 Writing the Restoration Period
  • The 17th and 18th Centuries
  • 3.1 Writing the Restoration Period
  • Preliminary Remarks
  • 3.2 The Political Agenda of Post-Restoration Writers
  • 3.3 Secret Histories and the Restoration
  • 3.4 Of Whores, Highwaymen and Courtiers
  • 3.5 Résumé
  • 4 The Restoration Period in Nineteenth-Century Re-Writings
  • 4.1 The Restoration Period and the Nineteenth Century
  • 4.2 The Restoration World on the Nineteenth-Century Stage
  • 4.2.1 The Theatrical Context of the Nineteenth Century
  • 4.2.2 The Restoration Period in 'Serious' Dramatic Forms
  • 4.2.3 The Restoration Period in 'Comic Forms'
  • 4.2.4 Résumé
  • The Restoration on the Nineteenth-Century Stage
  • 4.3 The Restoration Period in Narrative Fiction
  • 4.3.1 The Historical Novel and the Writing of History
  • 4.3.2 The Restoration in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
  • 4.3.3 Assessing the Period: Moral Indignation and Secret Longing
  • 4.3.4 In Good King Charles's Golden Days
  • Assessing Restoration Figures
  • 4.3.5 Restoration Politics and Religious Controversies
  • 4.3.6 The Restoration and the Historical Romance
  • 4.3.7 Résumé
  • Historical Fiction and the Restoration Past
  • 4.4 Summary
  • The Restoration in the Nineteenth Century
  • 5 The Restoration Period
  • The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • 5.1 Popular History, the Historical Profession and the Restoration Past
  • 5.2 Historical Drama and the Restoration Period
  • 5.2.1 Developments in Historical Drama
  • 5.2.2 Romantic Comedies and the Restoration
  • 5.2.3 Late-Twentieth-Century Reactions
  • Exploring Restoration Politics
  • 5.2.4 Exploring Restoration Libertinism and Twentieth-Century Morality
  • 5.2.5 The Restoration Theatre and the Actress
  • Exploring Gender
  • 5.2.6 Staging Charles II and Nell Gwynne
  • Recent Trends
  • 5.2.7 Résumé
  • The Restoration Period in History Plays
  • 5.3 The Restoration Period and Historical Fiction, 1900 to Today
  • 5.3.1 Twentieth-Century Historical Fiction and the Writing of the Past