Politics, performance and popular culture (eBook, ePUB)

Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain
Redaktion: Yeandle, Peter; Richards, Jeffrey; Newey, Katherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996536
• Artikelnr.: 48797081

Autorenporträt

Peter Yeandle is Lecturer in History at Loughborough University Katherine Newey is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Exeter Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lancaster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: politics, performance and popular culture - Peter Yeandle,
Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards Part I: Conceptualising performance,
theorising politics 1. 'To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and
politics in late Georgian England' - Robert Poole 2. The platform and the
stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism - Michael Sanders 3. 'Bubbles of
the day': the melodramatic and the pantomimic - Katherine Newey 4.
Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and legitimate/illegitimate divide -
Caroline Radcliffe 5. Performances for imagined communities: Gladstone, the
national theatre and the contested didactics of the stage - Anselm Heinrich
6. Women's suffrage and theatricality - Sos Eltis Part II: Politics in
performance 7. English pantomime and the Irish question - Jill Sullivan 8.
'Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism
and the music hall ballet - Jane Pritchard and Peter Yeandle 9. Drury Lane
imperialism - Jeffrey Richards Part III: The performance of politics 10.
'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and
performance in 1820 - Malcolm Chase 11. Robert Peel - actor dramatist -
Richard Gaunt 12. The performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and
off the stage - Janice Norwood 13. Class, performance and socialist
politics: the political campaigns of early labour leaders - Marcus Morris
Index