Bøger af Felicity A. Nussbaum

Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress.

In this book, Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in England and its empire during the long eighteenth century. With a special focus on women's writing, Nussbaum analyzes writing from the Restoration to abolition.

Examining the elements of the tradition of antifeminist satire in the Restoration and eighteenth century, and exploring its uses, Nussbaum reveals a clearer context in which many poems of the period will be read anew.

Felicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.

The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."-from the Introduction