Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Ros Ballaster

In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly fashionable. But the story is not one of theatre's decline and the novel's rise. As Ros Ballaster shows in this lively and innovative study, the relationship between the two media was one of an intensely creative and productive rivalry. Novelists sent their heroes to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783275588
• ISBN13: 9781783275588
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"