George Farquhar
A Migrant Life Reversed
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101350057061
- ISBN-139781350057067
- Library of Congress Control Number2017061647
- OCLC Control Number1005113513
- Better World Books9781350057067
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27844665M
Classifications
- LCCPR3438
- LCCPR3439 .R63 2018
Description
"George Farquhar (1677-1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular of the English Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet little has been written regarding Farquhar's biography and his Irish roots. This is the first study to treat Farquhar's works as documents of migration and the fragmented identity that resulted. Told in reverse chronological order, beginning with Farquhar's last and best-known works, it reveals previously undiscovered material about his life and connections. Born in Dublin, Farquhar arrived in London at the end of the 1690s but struggled throughout his life to find acceptance in the English literary culture. David Roberts explores how Farquhar used comedy to negotiate his Anglo-Irish Protestant identity while perpetually being treated as an outsider. George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed challenges the traditional critical thinking on historiographic approaches to scholarly biography and offers a complex but highly readable account of the interpenetrating pasts, presents and futures of the migrant writer." --
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