Query

[Ric Knowles]

Dear Candrama,

I have a request from a Canadian PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago to be put in touch with people working in 19th-Century Canadian theatre. His specific project is outlined below. Please contact Michael Meeuwis directly at <mmeeuwis at uchicago.edu>:

"I'm revising a dissertation chapter on nineteenth-century theater
in the Victorian colonies; I want to make sure that my
material on Canada is in line with what other people in the
field have written. The quickest way to summarize the chapter
is probably to quote my dissertation abstract (which I'm also
attaching in full, should it be of interest):

"The theater’s evocation of a field of everydayness was
particularly important for Victorian subjects living overseas.
My concluding chapter triangulates theatergoing and theater
production in England with records of military personnel
stationed in Victorian Anglo-India and of civilian colonists
constructing the new city of Victoria, British Columbia. As
their diaries and letters show, average citizens brought
theatrical texts such as "Cox and Box" (1847) and "San Toy"
(1899) to the colonies as a coat of phenomenological primer,
which allowed audiences and performers to map domestic
certainties onto the frequent disjunctions of colonial life.
Seeking to detach these performances from their essentially
negative place within metanarratives of nascent nationalist
idealism, I show how overseas Britons used the theater to
realize the typical cultural certainties of late-Victorian
life."

Thanks all,

Ric


Professor of Theatre Studies
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
N1G 2W1

ph: 519-824-4120, x52931 (w)
FAX: 519-824-0560
email: rknowles at uoguelph.ca


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: To: rknowles at uoguelph.ca
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:57:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Post-ASTR Query

Professor Knowles:

I'm writing, as you suggested, as a follow-up to our
conversation at ASTR in Boston. As I mentioned to you,      

You mentioned that you knew people working in and around this
topic; any help that you can provide would be gratefully
appreciated. Thanks again for your assistance in Boston. I
hope the 401 to Toronto remains drivable well into the late
winter.

Best,

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