Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742

Cultural Politics of Opera, 1720-1742

The Era of Walpole, Pope, and Handel

McGeary, Thomas

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

09/2024

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9781837651696

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Introduction: Opera and Cultural Politics
1. Rise of Walpole and the Whig Oligarchy
2. The Royal Academy of Music and Its Audience
3. Bolingbroke and the Political Opposition
4. Opera and the Luxury Debate
5. Excise and the Patriot Opposition
6. Opera of the Nobility and the Furor Farinellicus
7. From Excise to the War of Jenkins' Ear
8. A Patriot Vision for Dramatic Music
9. Opera and the Politics of Taste
10. Opera in Formal Verse Satire
11. War of Jenkins' Ear and the Fall of Walpole
12. The New Dunciad: Opera and the Triumph of Dulness

Coda: The Cultural Work of Opera
Bibliography
Index
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Political Culture; Sir Robert Walpole; Political History; Partisan Politics; Satire; Political elite; British politics; Handel; Alexander Pope; Polemicists