Download or read book The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 1 written by Wil Verhoeven and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.
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Download or read book Thomas Holcroft written by Joseph Rosenblum and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter discusses Holcroft's early life. The next three chapters examine his theories and practice as critic, dramatist and novelist, placing his writing within the context of the age and noting his literary debts. The fifth chapter concentrates on Holcroft's political views, which led to Holcroft's indictment for high treason in 1794. The final chapter provides a summary. Includes annotated bibliography and an index.
Download or read book The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft written by Thomas Holcroft and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re Viewing Thomas Holcroft 1745 1809 written by A.A. Markley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late eighteenth century. The self-educated son of a cobbler, Holcroft transformed himself into a popular playwright, influential reformist novelist, and controversial political radical. But his work is not important merely because he himself was a remarkable character, but rather because he was a hinge figure between laboring Britons and the dissenting intelligentsia, between Enlightenment traditions and developing 'Romantic' concerns, and between the world of self-made hack writers and that of established critics. Enhanced by an updated and corrected chronology of Holcroft's life and work, key images, and a full bibliography of published scholarship, this volume makes way for more concerted and focused scholarship and teaching on Holcroft. Taken together, the essays in this collection situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within ongoing explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.
Download or read book The Plays of Thomas Holcroft The man of ten thousand written by Thomas Holcroft and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Holcroft s Revolutionary Drama written by Amy Garnai and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. In engaging with theatrical censorship, apostacy, and the response of audiences and critics to radical drama, this thoughtful study also demonstrates how theater functions in times of political repression. Despite his struggles, Holcroft also had major successes: this book examines his surprisingly robust afterlife, as his plays, especially The Road to Ruin, were repeatedly revived worldwide in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 2 written by Wil Verhoeven and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s.
Download or read book Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research written by Carl Joseph Stratman and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive compilation of twentieth-century scholarship in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century drama provides a basis for future research and is an invaluable reference work. Items are arranged alphabetically under general headings--e.g., acting, criticism, periodicals, music, theology--as well as alphabetically by surname of actor, actress, dramatist, musician, etc. Copiously indexed.
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Download or read book The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft Vol 1 Manthorn the Enthusiast and Alwyn or The Gentleman Comedian written by Mrs. Inchbald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. He was an original if somewhat undisciplined thinker, a talented novelist, a popular playwright and translator, and an accomplished political pamphleteer. This edition restores the full range of his versatile talent to British literary history.
Download or read book The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination written by Roman Alexander Barton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.
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