Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742
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- ISBN 9781837651696
- Weight: 631g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2024
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day.
This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets.
The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry.
It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.
THOMAS MCGEARY holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain, 1720-1742 (CUP, 2013) and Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 (Boydell, 2022). He has published widely in art history, literature, and music history journals, including Burlington Magazine, British Art Journal, Philological Quarterly, Review of English Studies, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Musical Quarterly.
