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

by Ros Ballaster

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837651272
• ISBN13: 9781837651276
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"