Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters

William D. Brewer

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publish Date: Nov 25th, 2015
Pages: 255
Language: English
Edition: 2015 - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.61in - 0.77lb
EAN: 9781349482320
Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Modern - 19th Century• Poetry

About the Author

William D. Brewer is Professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA.

Praise for this book

"William D. Brewer's Staging Romantic Cha-meleons and Imposters proposes a broad definition of theatricality that moves from the stage to the page and from the world of fiction to real-life imposters. ... This book will interest not only scholars of the period's drama but also students of, say, Keatsian poetics or Byronic mobility." (Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 56 (4), Autumn, 2016)