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By Brett Wilson

ISBN-10: 1611483646

ISBN-13: 9781611483642

A Race of woman Patriots argues that public-spirited ladies proliferated at the eighteenth-century British level to catalyze an affective event of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new kinds of association, allegiance, and loyalty appropriate to the recent British structure proven bythe excellent Revolution of 1688. Brett D. Wilson examines either staples of the repertory (The reasonable Penitent, Jane Shore) and lesser-known performs (Liberty Asserted, The Revolution of Sweden, Edward and Eleonora) to outline the parameters of a established but under-examined dramatic mode: “civic” dramas that use scenes of political strife and personal misery to level the fashioning of groups round girls. Onstage, girls act to learn the public—crucially, Wilson argues, by way of infusing the commonwealth with sentimental ardor: public spirit. Playwrights like Nicholas Rowe, Catharine Trotter, John Dennis, and James Thomson make the female-centered unions they think into synecdoches for a British state remodeled from turmoil to concord. Restoring to view key missed texts that painting ladies who believe deeply as brokers of inclusion and icons of civic advantage, A Race of woman Patriots is a persuasive examine of tragic drama at a time of significant political switch that yields new perception into the relation among girls, feeling, and the general public sphere.

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