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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.

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Introduction; The Male Stage; Liminal Spaces; Partisan Allegories of Race and Desire; American Theater and the Quest for a Republican Identity; The Theatricality of Sexual Difference in Late-Eighteenth-Century America; Sowing the Seeds of Virtue; Porous Spheres in Time of War; "O'er us, rovers free"; Contributors.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater

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      Publisher: Transcript Verlag
      Publication Date: 03/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9783837652536, 978-3837652536
      ISBN10: 383765253X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; The Male Stage; Liminal Spaces; Partisan Allegories of Race and Desire; American Theater and the Quest for a Republican Identity; The Theatricality of Sexual Difference in Late-Eighteenth-Century America; Sowing the Seeds of Virtue; Porous Spheres in Time of War; "O'er us, rovers free"; Contributors.

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