Early Modern Spectatorship
Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2019
429 pages
978-0-7735-5791-8 (ISBN)
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Essays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.
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Huebert Ronald:
Ronald Huebert is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and Inglis Professor at the University of King's College.McNeil David:
David McNeil is a former associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.Ronald Huebert is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and Inglis Professor at the University of King's College. David McNeil is a former associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.
Ronald Huebert is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and Inglis Professor at the University of King's College.McNeil David:
David McNeil is a former associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.Ronald Huebert is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and Inglis Professor at the University of King's College. David McNeil is a former associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.
Content
- Cover
- EARLY MODERN SPECTATORSHIP
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Bibliographical Note
- Preface
- 1 Early Modern Spectatorship: An Overview
- 2 Making Spectacles: Spectatorship and Authority on the Early Modern Stage
- 3 "Shame's pure blush": Shakespeare and the Ethics of Spectatorship
- 4 Spectatorship and Repression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- 5 "Most grateful deceptions of the sight": Optical Technologies in Restoration England
- 6 Dying in Earnest: Public Executions and Their Audiences
- 7 Looking at John Donne Looking at God
- 8 Sidney Visualized: Thomas Lant's Sequitur celebritas (1588) and the Funeral Construction of an English National Hero
- 9 "Watching the Watchers": The Spectatorship Game in Ned Ward's The London Spy
- 10 Prospect Views: Landscapes, Knowledge, and Political Spectatorship in the Eighteenth Century
- 11 A Case Study on Spectatorship and the Visual Arts: Democritus and Heraclitus
- 12 Spectacle and the Chronotope of Progress in William Hogarth's London
- 13 Mural Painting and Spectatorship in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
