The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade

The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade
Author: Meghan Kobza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009050680

This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and written sources will bring together various experiences of the masquerade and expand the existing geographical, chronological, and socio-economic scope of the entertainment beyond the masquerade event itself. This Element will examine the domino's physical and figurative movements from the masquerade warehouse, through eighteenth-century fashionable society, and into print and visual culture. It will draw upon masquerade warehouse records, newspapers, manuscripts, prints, and physical objects to establish a comprehensive understanding of the domino and how it reflected contemporary experiences of the real and imagined masquerade. Analysing the domino through interdisciplinary methodologies illustrates the impact material and visual sources can have on reshaping existing scholarship.

The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade

The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade
Author: Meghan Kobza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781009045551

This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and written sources will bring together various experiences of the masquerade and expand the existing geographical, chronological, and socio-economic scope of the entertainment beyond the masquerade event itself. This Element will examine the domino's physical and figurative movements from the masquerade warehouse, through eighteenth-century fashionable society, and into print and visual culture. It will draw upon masquerade warehouse records, newspapers, manuscripts, prints, and physical objects to establish a comprehensive understanding of the domino and how it reflected contemporary experiences of the real and imagined masquerade. Analysing the domino through interdisciplinary methodologies illustrates the impact material and visual sources can have on reshaping existing scholarship.

Masquerade and Civilization

Masquerade and Civilization
Author: Terry Castle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804714686

Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700
Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009270494

This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Author: Diana Solomon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611494222

This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

Domino

Domino
Author: Ross King
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2011-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144646668X

By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi's Dome. After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meets the eminent painter Sir Endymion Starker that same evening and his mistress, Eleanora, who has another tragic tale to tell, one that will have George unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano...

The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven

The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven
Author: Erica Buurman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108495850

Reveals how the culture and repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom permeated and intersected with other areas of musical life.

The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
Author: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1995-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198024274

A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

The Berg Companion to Fashion

The Berg Companion to Fashion
Author: Valerie Steele
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474264700

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. - Over 300 in-depth entries covering designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles. - Edited and introduced by Valerie Steele, a scholar who has revolutionized the study of fashion, and who has been described by The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women." Derided by some as frivolous, even dangerous, and celebrated by others as art, fashion is anything but a neutral topic. Behind the hype and the glamour is an industry that affects all cultures of the world. A potent force in the global economy, fashion is also highly influential in everyday lives, even amongst those who may feel impervious. This handy volume is a one-stop reference for anyone interested in fashion - its meaning, history and theory. From Avedon to Codpiece, Dandyism to the G-String, Japanese Fashion to Subcultures, Trickle down to Zoot Suit, The Berg Companion to Fashion provides a comprehensive overview of this most fascinating of topics and will serve as the benchmark guide to the subject for many years to come.