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- Title
Defining American Urbanity.
- Authors
CALDWELL, MARK
- Abstract
Through an examination of several plays written by Royall Tyler and William Dunlap, produced at the John Street Theatre in New York during the late 1780s, this article traces an ongoing discussion about the proper nature of postrevolutionary urban manners, and--more broadly--attempts to define the social and cultural features of a distinctive American metropolis, differentiated from its European models and attuned to ongoing contemporary debates about the nature of civil society in the new republic.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NATIONALISM &; the arts; PATRIOTISM; POLITICAL theater; MANNERS &; customs -- History; THEATER history; 18TH century drama; NATIONAL character; TYLER, Royall, 1757-1826; DUNLAP, William, 1766-1839; CIVIL society; UNITED States civilization; EIGHTEENTH century; ANTEBELLUM Period (U.S.)
- Publication
Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
1543-4273
- Publication type
Article