The Contrast Manners Morals and Authority in the Early American Republic 1st Edition by Cynthia A Kierner ISBN 0814747930 978-0814747933

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ISBN 10: 0814747930

ISBN 13:  978-0814747933

Author: Cynthia A. Kierner

“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City’s John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers.
Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists’ rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how?
Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.

Table of contents:

 Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Contrast by Royall Tyler
3 Primary Documents
A. Arts and Literature in Post-Revolutionary America
B. Virtues and Vices of the Theater
C. Lord Chesterfield and His Critics
D. The Follies of Fashion
E. The Ideal Wife
F. The Ideal Husband
G. Educating American Youth
H. The Meaning of Equality
Suggested Reading
Index
About the Author
Illustrations
Advertisement for The Contrast, 1787
Frontispiece from the Columbian Magazine, 1789
The Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull, 1787
Royall Tyler
Plan of the City of New York, 1789
George Washington, by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1785–1792
Title page from The Contrast, 1790
Frontispiece from The Contrast, 1790
Miss Carolina Sullivan, 1776
The Toilet, 1786
A Morning Ramble, or, The Milliner’s Shop, 1782
The Copley Family, by John Singleton Copley, 1776–1777
The Washington Family, by Edward Savage, 1789–1796

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