LEADER 03663nam 22007212 450 001 9910784345603321 005 20160225095151.0 010 $a1-107-16864-3 010 $a1-280-81563-9 010 $a0-511-27474-2 010 $a0-511-48608-1 010 $a0-511-27544-7 010 $a0-511-27319-3 010 $a0-511-32097-3 010 $a0-511-27398-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000352132 035 $a(EBL)288652 035 $a(OCoLC)252535349 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187723 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208230 035 $a(PQKB)10715601 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511486081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC288652 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL288652 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167705 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL81563 035 $a(OCoLC)156846139 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000352132 100 $a20090226d2007|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRacism on the Victorian stage $erepresentation of slavery and the black character /$fHazel Waters$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-10755-5 311 $a0-521-86262-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-239) and index. 327 $g1$tFrom vengeance to sentiment$g7 --$g2$tThe beginning of the end for the black avenger$g37 --$g3$tIra Aldridge and the battlefield of race$g58 --$g4$tThe comic and the grotesque: the American influence$g89 --$g5$tThe consolidation of the black grotesque$g114 --$g6$tSlavery freed from the constraint of blackness$g130 --$g7$tUncle Tom -- moral high ground or low comedy?$g155. 330 $aWhile 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. 606 $aPrejudices in literature 606 $aRacism in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aEnglish drama$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aPrejudices in literature. 615 0$aRacism in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory 676 $a792.0890094109034 700 $aWaters$b Hazel$01466352 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784345603321 996 $aRacism on the Victorian stage$93676793 997 $aUNINA