Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters [electronic resource] /
Brewer, William D.author.
Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Previous Publications; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Case of the Pretended Duke of Ormond; Chapter 2 Richard Cumberland's Imposters; Chapter 3 Thomas Holcroft's Politicized Imposter and Sycophantic Chameleon; Chapter 4 Fluid Identities in Hannah Cowley's Universal Masquerade; Chapter 5 Mary Robinson's Polygraphs; Chapter 6 James Kenney's Opportunistic, Reformative, and Imitative Chameleons; Epilogue: The Perkin Warbeck Debate; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Poetry.
Great Britain-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literary History.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.