Politics, performance and popular culture theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Yeandle, Peter (-), Newey, Katherine, Richards, Jeffrey
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in popular culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Conceptualising performance, theorising politics
  • 1. T̀o the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England / Robert Poole
  • 2. platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism / Mike Sanders
  • 3. Bubbles of the day: the melodramatic and the pantomimic / Katherine Newey
  • 4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and the legitimate/illegitimate divide / Caroline Radcliffe
  • 5. Performance for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and contested didactics of the stage / Anselm Heinrich
  • 6. Women's suffrage and theatricality / Sos Eltis
  • II. Politics in performance
  • 7. English pantomime and the Irish Question / Jill A. Sullivan
  • 8. Èxecuted with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet / Peter Yeandle
  • 9. Drury Lane imperialism / Jeffrey Richards
  • III. performance of politics
  • 10. L̀ove, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 / Malcolm Chase
  • 11. Sir Robert Peel as actor-dramatist / Richard Gaunt
  • 12. performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage / Janice Norwood.