Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / Hazel Waters.
Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / Hazel Waters.
Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / Hazel Waters.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N792.089/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. From vengeance to sentiment -- 2. The beginning of the end for the black avenger -- 3. Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race -- 4. The comic and the grotesque : the American influence -- 5. The consolidation of the black grotesque -- 6. Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness -- 7. Uncl...
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"While there are many studies of nineteenth-century race theories and scientific racism, the attitudes and stereotypes expressed in popular culture have rarely been examined, and then only for the latter half of the century. Theatre then was mass entertainment and these forgotten plays, hastily written, surviving only as hand-written manuscripts or...
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Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / Hazel Waters.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-239) and index.
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N792.089/1
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74VKOLdEKQWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOLdEKQWd
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ISBN
9780521862622 (hbk.)
0521862620 (hbk.)
DDC
792.0890094109034
MMS ID
991022510769702626
