03661nam 2200721Ia 450 991081021340332120200520144314.01-107-16864-31-280-81563-90-511-27474-20-511-48608-10-511-27544-70-511-27319-30-511-32097-30-511-27398-3(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)99100000000035213220061004d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRacism on the Victorian stage representation of slavery and the black character /Hazel Waters1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press20071 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.Racism in popular cultureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryRacism and the artsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryTheater and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryRace in literatureRacism in popular cultureHistoryRacism and the artsHistoryTheater and societyHistoryRace in literature.792.0890094109034Waters Hazel1653301MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810213403321Racism on the Victorian stage4004542UNINA