Captive Stage - Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

Offers the first cultural history of proslavery ideology in the antebellum United States. The majority of representations of slavery before the Civil War explicitly defended the institution or accepted it as constitutive of American life. Douglas A. Jones, Jr. traces the pervasiveness of proslavery ideology in the antebellum period, charting its functionality in the social, cultural, and racial imaginary in the most unexpected of places: the free North.

About the author

Douglas A. Jones, Jr. is Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University.

Summary

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

Product details

• Authors: Douglas A. Jones, Douglas A. Jones Jr
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2014
• EAN: 9780472072262
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07226-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance; Theater: Theory/Text/Performan; Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet