Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditionsthat made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics.Tracing the transitions in the…
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Weitere Autoren: Kennerley, David (Hrsg.) / Newman, Ian (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-254045-4
- EAN: 9780192540454
- Produktnummer: 29377882
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 148'176 KB
- Abbildungen: 35 halftones
Über den Autor
Oskar Cox Jensen is a Leverhulme Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. From 2013 to 2017 he was a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded project 'Music in London, 1800-1851' at King's College London. His publications include Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822 (2015), and The London Ballad-Singer, 1792-1864. With David Kennerley, he is preparing a collection on music and politics, c.1780-1850. He has authored various articles and book chapters, aswell as several works of fiction.David Kennerley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the 'Music in London, 1800-1851' project at King's College London. His research explores the history of sound, music, and performance in Britain in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on sonic aspects of gender, and of political culture. His work has been published in the Historical Journal, and has featured in a Bodleian Library exhibition and accompanying book on Staging History, 1780-1840. He iscurrently completing a monograph on female singers in early nineteenth-century Britain, and, with Oskar Cox Jensen, editing a collection of essays on music and politics, c.1780-1850.Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish studies. He specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. His work has appeared in Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in Romanticism. He is currently completing a book The Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution. He isengaged in a digital project tracing the meeting places of the London Corresponding Society and is a founding editor of the Keats Letters Project.
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