The Celebrated Hannah Cowley: Experiments in Dramatic Genre, 1776-1794

by Angela Escott

Overview

Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138661394
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	Gender and Genre
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Note on Sources, List of Abbreviations, List of Figures, Introduction, 1 ‘Few Better Comedies than Hers’, 2 ‘The Thwarted Passions and Loft y Grandeur of Tragedy’: Cowley’s Gothic Drama, Albina, 3 Civic Virtue, Despotism and the Fall of Empires in Cowley’s Tragedy, The Fate of Sparta, 4 Afterpiece Experiments: Oratory, Pedantry and Politeness, 5 The Imperial Project: Resistance and Revolution in Cowley’s Oriental Musical Comedy, 6 A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-Fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence, Appendix: Chronology of Plays by Hannah Cowley, Notes, Works Cited, Index