Daniel O’quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4520496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel O’quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | O’quinn |
| SIGNATURE | O’QUINN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Equiano’s Ice, Akomfrah’s Sea
John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea offers not only a visual meditation on the legacy of slavery and colonialism in the Black Atlantic, but also an extraordinarily rich engagement with the writings of Olaudah Equiano, whose Interesting Narrative is arguably the most important anti-slavery text of the eighteenth century. Equiano’s avatar appears frequently in the tableaux of Vertigo Sea and episodes from his slave narrative inform both the visual style an…
Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain, by Michael Ragussis
Michael Ragussis, the distinguished scholar of anti-Semitism in nineteenth-century Britain, died shortly after the publication of this monograph. He has left behind a provocative polemic that will incite productive debate for many years to come. As in the case of his important Figures of Conversion: ‘The Jewish Question’ and English National Identity (1995), this present book is a significant intervention in multiple fields of enquiry. It offers …
Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790
Honorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of…
The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its mos…
Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800
Insurgent Allegories: Staging Venice Preserv'd , The Rivals , and Speculation in 1795
Theatre is first and foremost a social experience, and thus poses fundamental questions regarding the relationship between artistic production and political reception. As audiences are transient and hybrid, one is forced to think through not only the ephemerality of response, but also its unpredictability. These challenges for cultural analysis are not confined to performance, but the analysis of specific performances can be conducted in a fashio…
Mercantile Deformities: George Colman's Inkle and Yarico and the Racialization of Class Relations
Of all the late eighteenth-century comedies set in colonial spaces none is as important as George Colman's highly successful comic opera Inkle and Yarico (1787) for understanding the relationship between shifts in British imperial policy and the racialization of class on the London stage. 1 Of crucial importance is the apparent contradiction between the play's supposed abolitionist gestures and its explicitly racist representations of Africans an…
Scissors and Needles: Inchbald's Wives as They Were, Maids as They are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange
Scissors and Needles: Inchbald’s Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange Daniel O’Quinn* (bio) Elizabeth Inchbald’s Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are opened on March 4, 1797 at Covent Garden to strong reviews and even stronger receipts, but I want to open this reading of Inchbald’s play in the other patent theatre. 1 Drury Lane audiences had a steady diet of suffering women whose ideological function had ch…
Gardening, History, and the Escape from Time: "Derek Jarman's "Modern Nature
I would like to thank Jim Ellis, Deborah Esch, Jody Greene, Dana Luciano, and Charles Reeve for their encouragement and their insightful commentary on earlier drafts of this essay. 1. Sackville-West's poem resonates with much of Jarman's discussion of his own garden and with his filmic practice in the late 1980s. Her attempts to counter great tragedies with pleasures may well be on Jarman's mind when he argues for a cinema of small gestures in re…
The gog and the magog of Hunnish desolation: De Quincey, kant and the practice of death
(1997). The gog and the magog of Hunnish desolation: De Quincey, kant and the practice of death. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 261-286
Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790
Honorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of…
Scissors and Needles: Inchbald's Wives as They Were, Maids as They are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange
Scissors and Needles: Inchbald’s Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange Daniel O’Quinn* (bio) Elizabeth Inchbald’s Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are opened on March 4, 1797 at Covent Garden to strong reviews and even stronger receipts, but I want to open this reading of Inchbald’s play in the other patent theatre. 1 Drury Lane audiences had a steady diet of suffering women whose ideological function had ch…
Mercantile Deformities: George Colman's Inkle and Yarico and the Racialization of Class Relations
Of all the late eighteenth-century comedies set in colonial spaces none is as important as George Colman's highly successful comic opera Inkle and Yarico (1787) for understanding the relationship between shifts in British imperial policy and the racialization of class on the London stage. 1 Of crucial importance is the apparent contradiction between the play's supposed abolitionist gestures and its explicitly racist representations of Africans an…
Gardening, History, and the Escape from Time: "Derek Jarman's "Modern Nature
I would like to thank Jim Ellis, Deborah Esch, Jody Greene, Dana Luciano, and Charles Reeve for their encouragement and their insightful commentary on earlier drafts of this essay. 1. Sackville-West's poem resonates with much of Jarman's discussion of his own garden and with his filmic practice in the late 1980s. Her attempts to counter great tragedies with pleasures may well be on Jarman's mind when he argues for a cinema of small gestures in re…
The gog and the magog of Hunnish desolation: De Quincey, kant and the practice of death
(1997). The gog and the magog of Hunnish desolation: De Quincey, kant and the practice of death. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 261-286
The gog and the magog of Hunnish desolation: De Quincey, kant and the practice of death
(1997). The gog and the magog of Hunnish desolation: De Quincey, kant and the practice of death. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 261-286
Scissors and Needles: Inchbald's Wives as They Were, Maids as They are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange
Scissors and Needles: Inchbald’s Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange Daniel O’Quinn* (bio) Elizabeth Inchbald’s Wives as They Were, Maids as They Are opened on March 4, 1797 at Covent Garden to strong reviews and even stronger receipts, but I want to open this reading of Inchbald’s play in the other patent theatre. 1 Drury Lane audiences had a steady diet of suffering women whose ideological function had ch…
Gardening, History, and the Escape from Time: "Derek Jarman's "Modern Nature
I would like to thank Jim Ellis, Deborah Esch, Jody Greene, Dana Luciano, and Charles Reeve for their encouragement and their insightful commentary on earlier drafts of this essay. 1. Sackville-West's poem resonates with much of Jarman's discussion of his own garden and with his filmic practice in the late 1980s. Her attempts to counter great tragedies with pleasures may well be on Jarman's mind when he argues for a cinema of small gestures in re…
Mercantile Deformities: George Colman's Inkle and Yarico and the Racialization of Class Relations
Of all the late eighteenth-century comedies set in colonial spaces none is as important as George Colman's highly successful comic opera Inkle and Yarico (1787) for understanding the relationship between shifts in British imperial policy and the racialization of class on the London stage. 1 Of crucial importance is the apparent contradiction between the play's supposed abolitionist gestures and its explicitly racist representations of Africans an…
Insurgent Allegories: Staging Venice Preserv'd , The Rivals , and Speculation in 1795
Theatre is first and foremost a social experience, and thus poses fundamental questions regarding the relationship between artistic production and political reception. As audiences are transient and hybrid, one is forced to think through not only the ephemerality of response, but also its unpredictability. These challenges for cultural analysis are not confined to performance, but the analysis of specific performances can be conducted in a fashio…
Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800
The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its mos…
Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790
Honorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of…
Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain, by Michael Ragussis
Michael Ragussis, the distinguished scholar of anti-Semitism in nineteenth-century Britain, died shortly after the publication of this monograph. He has left behind a provocative polemic that will incite productive debate for many years to come. As in the case of his important Figures of Conversion: ‘The Jewish Question’ and English National Identity (1995), this present book is a significant intervention in multiple fields of enquiry. It offers …
Equiano’s Ice, Akomfrah’s Sea
John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea offers not only a visual meditation on the legacy of slavery and colonialism in the Black Atlantic, but also an extraordinarily rich engagement with the writings of Olaudah Equiano, whose Interesting Narrative is arguably the most important anti-slavery text of the eighteenth century. Equiano’s avatar appears frequently in the tableaux of Vertigo Sea and episodes from his slave narrative inform both the visual style an…
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