Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809 : essays on his works and life /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Wallace, Miriam L., Markley, A. A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Series:	British literature in context in the long eighteenth century.
Subjects:	Holcroft, Thomas, > 1745-1809. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Literature and society > England > History > 18th century. London (England) > Intellectual life > 18th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Pt.1 Becoming a man of letters : Developmental stages : Thomas Holcroft's early fiction, elocutionary rhetoric, and the function of the theater in the progress of character / Rick Incorvati
Holcroft and the art of sinking in poetry / Anne Chandler
Holcroft's translations of the 1780s and Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de Lichtfield / Miriam L. Wallace
Pt.2 Reform on the stage : Rewriting Shylock : Thomas Holcroft, semitic discourse, and anti-semitism on the English stage / Jeremy W. Webster
"Perfectly harmless and secure"? : The political contexts of Thomas Holcroft's He's much to blame / Philip Cox
Illustrating Thomas Holcroft's A tale of mystery as physiognomical tableaux vivant / Diane Long Hoeveler
Pt.3 Reform in the novel : Language and landscape in Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives / Ian Newman
Examining Jacobin sexual politics in Anna St. Ives / Hilary N. Fezzey
Contradictory strictures : print, speech, and the problem of mediation in Holcroft's Hugh Trevor / Jonathan Sachs
Pt.4 Re-viewing the life : Thomas Holcroft and reviewing traditions / Antonia Forster
Transforming experience into reform in Holcroft's Memoirs and literary works / A.A. Markley
Politics for the people : Thomas Holcroft's proto-Marxism / W.M. Verhoeven.