The Virtuous Spy : From Major John André (1798) to Captain
Thorne in Secret Service (1895)

a 2019

The Virtuous Spy : From Major John André (1798) to Captain Thorne in Secret Service (1895)

KAČER, Tomáš

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Virtuous Spy : From Major John André (1798) to Captain Thorne in Secret Service (1895)

Název česky

Ctnostný zvěd : od majora Johna Andrého (1798) ke kapitánu Thornovi ve Výzvědné službě (1895

Autoři

KAČER, Tomáš

Vydání

Biennial conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies and 22nd International Colloqium of American Studies, September 12-14, 2019, Palacký University, Olomouc, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

American drama; 18th Century; 19th Century; secret service; spy thriller

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 21. 2. 2020 18:07, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

André, the first U.S. tragedy in verse, is one of the earliest American plays. Written by William Dunlap in 1798, it focuses on a crucial episode of the Revolutionary War, that of a capture, conviction, and execution of Major John André, a British military spy. But André was also a distinguished soldier respected by both sides of the conflict and a popular figure among American civilians. The play raises various moral issues and asks: what to do when a spy is one of us? Despite being a British soldier, Major André was seen as a representative of American (republican) values such as honesty, faithfulness, and the love of freedom in the context of the American Revolution. The tragedy André is an early spy drama that introduces a character of a spy the audience may identify with, and through whose personage they may, in effect, reassess their political and moral positions. A similar mechanism is introduced in Secret Service by William Gillette (1895), a sensational melodrama and a spy thriller from the Civil War. Is the gallant Southerner, Captain Thorne, really a Northern spy? His nationalist fervor and an unwavering moral stance force the postbellum audience to question their loyalties again as with André a hundred years earlier. The conference presentation will compare the two plays in their respective contexts and show how the personage of the virtuous spy contributed to a reassessment of values of respective postwar American identities.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1396/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments (Akronym: RCE)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

KAČER, Tomáš. The Virtuous Spy : From Major John André (1798) to Captain Thorne in Secret Service (1895). In Biennial conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies and 22nd International Colloqium of American Studies, September 12-14, 2019, Palacký University, Olomouc. 2019.

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KAČER, Tomáš. The Virtuous Spy : From Major John André (1798) to Captain Thorne in Secret Service (1895). In \textit{Biennial conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies and 22nd International Colloqium of American Studies, September 12-14, 2019, Palacký University, Olomouc}. 2019.

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