The result of reading such an intense and lengthy study is a feeling of great satisfaction.
Elizabeth Fay Wordsworth Circle Deserves a prominent place among recent publications by literary scholars... investigative, interpretative, and integrative. With Daniel O'Quinn, it is also intrepid. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research This is an erudite and entertaining book, and a brief review like ... Read morethis one cannot really do justice to the complexity of O'Quinn's analysis or to the sheer number and variety of texts, events, and artifacts that are examined in the course of his discussion.This is a book that will requard and enlighten any patient reader with an interest in cultural studies and the history of the British empire. AMS Press In this remarkably original and detailed study... O'Quinn's authoritative synthesis of theatricality and audience response gives us a deep and refreshing understanding of how a culture constitutes itself through creative expression and thoughtful mediation, and ultimately, how it knows that despite defeat, the show must still go on.
Leslie Elizabeth Eckel Studies in Romanticism Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium is an engaging and erudite study of British reception of the American Revolutionary War through the combined media force of theatre and newspapers during the late eighteenth century... Ultimately, this book presents a satisfying chronological narrative that contributes to greater understanding of how media reception of social performances shaped British subjectivity during and after the American Revolution.
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