Bøger af Brett Wilson

How long can our government continue to hide The Milagro? What if... The government had been harboring a cure for a vicious disease for the past 70 years? And we found out that millions of people had been left to die, because our country's leaders believed that we, as a society, were not "ready" for the cure? What if... our country hid secrets and exposed our population to deadly diseases for its entire history just to control our population as they deemed fit? What if... This disturbing god-complex continues to exist in the hierarchy of our nation today? What if... a group of American soldiers had discovered a miracle that could change the world? What if... it could save the lives of millions of people, but the government had no intentions of letting the soldiers live long enough to Take it public? Join these soldiers as they flee across the country, fight through a nation's lies and deception, in a race against death, as they try to bring a miracle to the world. Will they live long enough to share their secret or will it be shuffled quietly into the closet with the rest of America's dirty laundry?

A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new forms of affiliation, allegiance, and loyalty suitable to the new British constitution established bythe Glorious Revolution of 1688. Brett D. Wilson examines both staples of the repertory (The Fair Penitent, Jane Shore) and lesser-known plays (Liberty Asserted, The Revolution of Sweden, Edward and Eleonora) to define the parameters of a prevalent yet under-examined dramatic mode: ';civic' dramas that use scenes of political strife and private distress to stage the fashioning of communities around women. Onstage, women act to benefit the publiccrucially, Wilson argues, by infusing the commonwealth with sentimental ardor: public spirit. Playwrights like Nicholas Rowe, Catharine Trotter, John Dennis, and James Thomson make the female-centered unions they imagine into synecdoches for a British nation transformed from turmoil to harmony. Restoring to view key neglected texts that portray women who feel deeply as agents of inclusion and icons of civic virtue, A Race of Female Patriots is a persuasive study of tragic drama at a time of great political change that yields new insight into the relation between women, feeling, and the public sphere.