Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
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British drama history
Careless Husband
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Cibber's Play
Cibber’s Play
comic reform plot cultural impact
domestic ideology analysis
Early Eighteenth Century Drama
Early Eighteenth Century Theatre
Eighteenth Century Comedy
eighteenth-century theatre
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Errant Characters
finance capitalism influence
Generous Husband
husband
Jealous Husbands
Johnson's Play
Johnson’s Play
Lady Fidget
Lady Teazle
Lady Townly
Mary Pix
middling class consciousness
Moral Reform Discourses
political factionalism studies
Provoked Husband
Reform Comedy
Reform Plot
Restoration Comedy
Sir Novelty Fashion
SRM's Mode
SRM’s Mode
St James's Park
St James’s Park
Susanna Centlivre
Suspicious Husband
Tender Husband
Whig Polemic
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- ISBN 9781409417965
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Aparna Gollapudi argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin Hoadly in relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism, imperial nationalism, political factionalism, domestic ideology, and middling class-consciousness. Within the context of the cultural anxieties engendered by these developments, Gollapudi suggests, the reform comedies must be seen not as clichéd and moralistic productions but as responses to vital ideological shifts and cultural transvaluations that impose a reassuring moral schema on everyday conduct. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Gollapudi's study shows that reform comedies covered a range of contemporary concerns from party politics to domestic harmony and are crucial for understanding eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Aparna Gollapudi is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University, USA.
