TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chandrava Chakravarty
TI  - Gendering the nation : identity politics and the English comic theatre of the long eighteenth century
SN  - 9788125051299
U1  - 792.094107 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Hyderabad
PB  - Orient Blackswan
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Nationalism in art
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - English drama
KW  - English drama (Comedy)
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Gender identity in art
N2  - This book studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite, genteel nation. The book analyses certain popular comic plays of the time to ascertain the extent to which they could constitute gender - masculinity and femininity - as the basis of a secure social order and a stable nation. A study of gender-culture interface, this book offers new readings of non-canonical plays and makes extensive use of several extra-literary discourses
ER  -