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Informationen zum Autor Peter Yeandle is Lecturer in History at the Loughborough University Katherine Newey is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Exeter Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political! this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century! offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: politics, performance and popular culture - Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey RichardsPart I: Conceptualising performance, theorising politics1. 'To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England' - Robert Poole2. The platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism - Michael Sanders3. 'Bubbles of the day': the melodramatic and the pantomimic - Katherine Newey4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and legitimate/illegitimate divide - Caroline Radcliffe5. Performances for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and the contested didactics of the stage - Anselm Heinrich6. Women's suffrage and theatricality - Sos EltisPart II: Politics in performance7. English pantomime and the Irish question - Jill Sullivan8. 'Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet - Jane Pritchard and Peter Yeandle9. Drury Lane imperialism - Jeffrey RichardsPart III: The performance of politics10. 'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 - Malcolm Chase11. Robert Peel - actor dramatist - Richard Gaunt12. The performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage - Janice Norwood13. Class, performance and socialist politics: the political campaigns of early labour leaders - Marcus MorrisIndex...
