| FT-51333-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Jonathan Mulrooney | British Romanticism and the Subject of Theater, 1798-1830 | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Jonathan | | Mulrooney | | | | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington | VT | 05405-0160 | USA | 2003 | British Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This project examines the historical development and cultural significance of British Theater criticism during 1798-1830, and considers its influence on Romantic writers and poets. I begin by examining a rapid increase during the early nineteenth century in the number of British periodicals devoted solely to theater. This expansion represents a crucial intersection of print and theatrical culture, as growing numbers of writers and readers re-imagined their relationships to each other, to theater, and to the public world that theater represented. I then argue that the aesthetic sensibilities of Romanticism’s "second generation" were shaped by popular experiences of theater to a far greater extent than has been previously thought. |