The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735)
Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a glowing, joyous young Widow, the storyline regenders standard expectations about desire, marriage, libertinism and sentiment. The play has not been reprinted since 1735; therefore this old-spelling edition gives scholars access to an important but neglected resource for studies of women writers and eighteenth-century theatre. In…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-88259-0
- EAN: 9781351882590
- Produktnummer: 24386336
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'549 KB
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Tiffany Potter teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research addresses issues of gender, sexuality, and race in the eighteenth-century, with special interest in cultures of libertinism in England and ideas of femininity and indigeneity in North America.
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