Title Theater enough : American culture and the metaphor of the world stage, 1607-1789 / Jeffrey H. Richards

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 335 pages) Contents Preface: Toward a theatrics of culture -- Prologue: Democratic spectacles: Medium, message, and metaphor -- A theater of the world, to 1630. Politics, history, and theatrum mundi: some early formulations. American origins I: a theater of theaters. American origins II: a theater against theaters. Prospero in Virginia: the example of Captain John Smith -- The theater of faith, 1630-1730. A theater on a hill: Puritans and the rhetoric of performance. Playing the (trans)script: the antinomian crisis. Theatrou Mestoi: the example of Cotton Mather -- The theater of action, 1676-1776. The field or the stage: democracy, theater, and Anglo-American culture. Theater of blood: the rituals of Republican revolution. Providential actor: the example of John Adams -- The theater of glory, 1776-1789. A theater just erected: America at war. Play and earnest on the postwar stage. Stage metaphor and the New Republic -- Epilogue: Instant theater Analysis English literature United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism American literature -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature. Colonies in literature. Theater in literature. Metaphor. Metaphor metaphor. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- Colonial period Civilization Colonies in literature English literature English literature -- Early modern Intellectual life Literature Metaphor National characteristics, American, in literature Theater in literature Literatur Welttheater Kultur Geschichte 1607-1789. SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 18th century English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 17th century United States -- Civilization -- To 1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139935 America -- In literature Subject America English-speaking countries United States USA Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 90047943 ISBN 9780822378228 0822378221

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