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Racism on the Victorian Stage - Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (Hardcover)
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Racism on the Victorian Stage - Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (Hardcover)
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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.
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