Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture Hardback
Edited by Oskar (Leverhulme Fellow, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London) Cox Jensen, David (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Music Department, King's College London) Kennerley, Ian (Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Department of English) Newman
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Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation.
He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education.
This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. Tracing the transitions in the cultural economy from an eighteenth-century system of miscellany to a nineteenth-century regime of specialisation, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture illustrates the variety of Dibdin's cultural output as characteristic of late eighteenth-century entertainment, while also addressing the challenge mounted by a growing preoccupation with specialisation in the early nineteenth century.
The chapters, written by some of the leading experts in their individual disciplines, examine Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career, spanning cultural spaces from the theatres at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through Ranelagh Gardens, Sadler's Wells, and the Royal Circus, to singing on board ships and in elegant Regency parlours; from broadside ballads and graphic satires, to newspaper journalism, mezzotint etchings, painting, and decorative pottery.
Together they demonstrate connections between forms of cultural production that have often been treated as distinct, and provide a model for a more integrated approach to the fabric of late Georgian cultural production.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 35 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/01/2018
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- ISBN:9780198812425
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 35 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/01/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198812425
