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Author Flothow, Dorothea, author

Title 'Those gay days of wickedness and wit' : the restoration period in popular historiographies (18th-21st Centuries) / Dorothea Flothow
Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (433 p.)
Series Wissenschaft und Kunst ; v.35
Wissenschaft und Kunst.
Contents Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Popular Historiography -- 1.1 Popular History -- Defining the Field -- 1.2 Popular Historiography and History after the Linguistic Turn -- 1.3 Academic Historiography as 'Privileged Insight into the Past' -- 1.4 Popular Historiographies and Memory Studies -- 1.5 Résumé -- 2 Popular Genres and the Presentation of the Past -- 2.1 Genres as 'Ways of History-Making' -- 2.2 Defining Historical Drama -- 2.2.1 Previous Attempts at Defining Historical Drama -- 2.2.2 Historical Drama as Popular Historiography
2.3 The Historical Novel -- 2.3.1 Definitions of the Historical Novel -- Trends and Issues -- 2.3.2 Writing History in the Novel -- 2.4 Historical Crime Fiction and the Historical Romance -- 2.4.1 Historical Crime Fiction -- 2.4.2 The Historical Romance -- 2.5 Résumé -- 3 Writing the Restoration Period -- The 17th and 18th Centuries -- 3.1 Writing the Restoration Period -- Preliminary Remarks -- 3.2 The Political Agenda of Post-Restoration Writers -- 3.3 Secret Histories and the Restoration -- 3.4 Of Whores, Highwaymen and Courtiers -- 3.5 Résumé
4 The Restoration Period in Nineteenth-Century Re-Writings -- 4.1 The Restoration Period and the Nineteenth Century -- 4.2 The Restoration World on the Nineteenth-Century Stage -- 4.2.1 The Theatrical Context of the Nineteenth Century -- 4.2.2 The Restoration Period in 'Serious' Dramatic Forms -- 4.2.3 The Restoration Period in 'Comic Forms' -- 4.2.4 Résumé -- The Restoration on the Nineteenth-Century Stage -- 4.3 The Restoration Period in Narrative Fiction -- 4.3.1 The Historical Novel and the Writing of History -- 4.3.2 The Restoration in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
4.3.3 Assessing the Period: Moral Indignation and Secret Longing -- 4.3.4 In Good King Charles's Golden Days -- Assessing Restoration Figures -- 4.3.5 Restoration Politics and Religious Controversies -- 4.3.6 The Restoration and the Historical Romance -- 4.3.7 Résumé -- Historical Fiction and the Restoration Past -- 4.4 Summary -- The Restoration in the Nineteenth Century -- 5 The Restoration Period -- The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- 5.1 Popular History, the Historical Profession and the Restoration Past -- 5.2 Historical Drama and the Restoration Period
5.2.1 Developments in Historical Drama -- 5.2.2 Romantic Comedies and the Restoration -- 5.2.3 Late-Twentieth-Century Reactions -- Exploring Restoration Politics -- 5.2.4 Exploring Restoration Libertinism and Twentieth-Century Morality -- 5.2.5 The Restoration Theatre and the Actress -- Exploring Gender -- 5.2.6 Staging Charles II and Nell Gwynne -- Recent Trends -- 5.2.7 Résumé -- The Restoration Period in History Plays -- 5.3 The Restoration Period and Historical Fiction, 1900 to Today -- 5.3.1 Twentieth-Century Historical Fiction and the Writing of the Past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 5.3.2 Romance Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 4th, 2023)
Subject Historiography
Literature
Mass media
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- Historiography
Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- In literature
Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- In mass media
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3825372782
9783825372781