Entertaining the Nation : American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries /

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In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Tice L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
English drama.
American drama > Revolutionary period (United States)
American drama.
DRAMA > American.
Theâtre anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre americain > 1775-1783 (Revolution) > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre americain > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
American drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
American drama > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
United States.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
United States > In literature.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • British drama and the colonial American stage
  • American drama of the new republic
  • Drama in the age of Jackson
  • The age of melodrama
  • Realism and American drama.

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