Title Politics, performance and popular culture : theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain / edited by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in popular culture Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England) Contents Machine generated contents note: I. Conceptualising performance, theorising politics -- 1. ̀To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England / Robert Poole -- 2. platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism / Mike Sanders -- 3. Bubbles of the day: the melodramatic and the pantomimic / Katherine Newey -- 4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and the legitimate/illegitimate divide / Caroline Radcliffe -- 5. Performance for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and contested didactics of the stage / Anselm Heinrich -- 6. Women's suffrage and theatricality / Sos Eltis -- II. Politics in performance -- 7. English pantomime and the Irish Question / Jill A. Sullivan -- 8. ̀Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet / Peter Yeandle -- 9. Drury Lane imperialism / Jeffrey Richards -- III. performance of politics -- 10. ̀Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 / Malcolm Chase -- 11. Sir Robert Peel as actor-dramatist / Richard Gaunt -- 12. performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage / Janice Norwood Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Popular culture -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Popular culture -- Political aspects Theater -- Political aspects Politik Theater Theatralik Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Yeandle, Peter, editor Newey, Katherine, editor Richards, Jeffrey, editor LC no. 2016302243 ISBN 9781526109989 1526109980 1784997153 9781784997151 9781784996536 178499653X

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