Tracy C. Davis (Illinois Northwestern University)

Gebundenes Buch

Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires

Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform

Beschreibung

Examining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective.

Autor

Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University. She has published books on nineteenth-century theatre, the economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, and gender and theatre. Her latest book combines these interests in a study of two generations of Victorian activists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9781009297530
• ISBN-10: 1009297538
• Artikelnr.: 66480759