Rushing Into Floods
Staging the Sea in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Drama
By (author) Gunda Windmüller Series edited by Uwe Baumann Series edited by Marion Gymnich Series edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Hardback (Published)
(May 2012)
ISBN: 9783899719680
6.46 x 9.69 inches
Price: $99.00
In stock
The Sea on Stage – Colonial Expansion, Maritime Empire and English Drama.
The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on staging the sea in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and knowledge about the other. The study explores well-known plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Dr. Gunda Windmüller was born and raised in Cologne before moving to England, graduating with a BA in Politics and Sociology from the University of York. Returning to Germany, she completed a Masters degree in Comparative Literature, Politics and Sociology at the University of Bonn before completing a PhD in English Literature at the same institution.
- By (author) Gunda Windmüller
- Series edited by Uwe Baumann
- Series edited by Marion Gymnich
- Series edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Other Titles in this Series
Whoever Controls Your Eyeballs Runs the World
Visualisierung von Kunst und Gewalt im Werk von Don DeLillo
Similar Books
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Cahiers de l’Association internationale des études françaises
J. M. G. Le Clézio - Enseigner les littératures francophones aujourd’hui - Récit de soi et expérience de l’illusion (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Volume 78
Cahiers de littérature française
Les Métamorphoses du texte. Enjeux intertextuels et transpositions visuelles
Volume 25
Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes – Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies
Volume 51
Cahiers de sémiotique des cultures
Ponctuation et sens. Nouvelles perspectives / Punctuation and meaning. New perspectives
Volume 6
CompLit
Myth, Folklore and Magic in European Literatures. Critical and Contemporary Reconfigurations
Dis/United States of Vulnerability
Literary and Cultural Transgressions in U.S. Poetry Since the 1960s
Volume 330
European Drama and Performance Studies
Dramatisations politiques. Théâtre, politique et idéologie au XIXe siècle (1806-1914)
Volume 27
