03663nam 22007212 450 991078434560332120160225095151.01-107-16864-31-280-81563-90-511-27474-20-511-48608-10-511-27544-70-511-27319-30-511-32097-30-511-27398-3(CKB)1000000000352132(EBL)288652(OCoLC)252535349(SSID)ssj0000232091(PQKBManifestationID)11187723(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232091(PQKBWorkID)10208230(PQKB)10715601(UkCbUP)CR9780511486081(MiAaPQ)EBC288652(Au-PeEL)EBL288652(CaPaEBR)ebr10167705(CaONFJC)MIL81563(OCoLC)156846139(EXLCZ)99100000000035213220090226d2007|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRacism on the Victorian stage representation of slavery and the black character /Hazel Waters[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2007.1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-10755-5 0-521-86262-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-239) and index.1From vengeance to sentiment7 --2The beginning of the end for the black avenger37 --3Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race58 --4The comic and the grotesque: the American influence89 --5The consolidation of the black grotesque114 --6Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness130 --7Uncle Tom -- moral high ground or low comedy?155.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 cheap pamphlets, are a rich seam for the cultural historian. Mining them to discover how 'race' was viewed and how the stereotype of the black developed and degraded, sheds a fascinating light on the development of racism in English culture. In the process, this book helps to explain how a certain flexibility in attitudes towards skin colour, observable at the end of the eighteenth century, changed into the hardened jingoism of the late nineteenth. Concentrating on the period 1830 to 1860, its detailed excavation of some seventy plays makes it invaluable to the theatre historian and black studies scholar.Prejudices in literatureRacism in literatureSlavery in literatureEnglish drama19th centuryHistory and criticismTheater and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPrejudices in literature.Racism in literature.Slavery in literature.English dramaHistory and criticism.Theater and societyHistory792.0890094109034Waters Hazel1466352UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910784345603321Racism on the Victorian stage3676793UNINA