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Chartist drama

Author : Gregory Vargo
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526142082
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Chartist drama written by Gregory Vargo and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind, Chartist Drama makes available four plays written or performed by members of the Chartist movement of the 1840s. Emerging from the lively counter-culture of this protest campaign for democratic rights, these plays challenged cultural as well as political hierarchies by adapting such recognisable genres as melodrama, history plays, and tragedy for performance in radically new settings. They include poet-activist John Watkins’s John Frost, which dramatises the gripping events of the Newport rising, in which twenty-two Chartists lost their lives in what was probably a misfired attempt to spark a nationwide rebellion. Gregory Vargo’s introduction and notes elucidate the previously unexplored world of Chartist dramatic culture, a context that promises to reshape what we know about early Victorian popular politics and theatre.

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191082090
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture written by Juliet John and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.

The Chartist Movement in Scotland

Author : Alexander Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chartist Movement in Scotland written by Alexander Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Chartist Movement

Author : Julius West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Chartist Movement written by Julius West and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Socialist and Workers Theatre

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031256824
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book British Socialist and Workers Theatre written by Robert Leach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre – a feat which has not been attempted before. It explores the connections between politics and culture (specifically theatre) and between political theory and cultural (theatrical) expression. The book is organized chronologically and uncovers much in labour and theatre history which is in danger of being lost. It can also be seen as a way into different moments in its subject’s story (e.g. post-Ibsen naturalism; agitprop theatre; ‘fringe’ theatre of the 1970s) and the relationship of such forms to specific political events and ideas at specific points in history.

Politics, performance and popular culture

Author : Peter Yeandle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 178499653X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Politics, performance and popular culture written by Peter Yeandle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction

Author : Rob Breton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317022262
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction written by Rob Breton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redressing a gap in Chartism studies, Rob Breton focuses on the fiction that emerged from the movement, placing it in the context of the Victorian novel and reading it against the works aimed at the middle-class. Breton examines works by well-known writers such as Ernest Jones and Thomas Cooper alongside those of obscure or anonymous writers, rejecting the charge that Chartist fiction fails aesthetically, politically, and culturally. Rather, Breton suggests, it constitutes a type of anti-fiction in which the expectations of narrative are revealed as irreconcilable to the real world. Taking up a range of genres, including the historical romance and social-problem story, Breton theorizes the emergence of the fiction against Marxist conceptualizations of cultural hegemony. In situating Chartist fiction in periodical print culture and specific historical moments, this book shows the ways in which it serves as a critique of mainstream Victorian fiction.

Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Charles Ryle Fay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century written by Charles Ryle Fay and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century

Author : C. R. Fay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107632803
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century written by C. R. Fay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1947, this book examines the climate surrounding life and labour in Britain in the nineteenth century. Fay analyses the international and local political structures affecting the way the British lived and worked, as well as the role played by social reformers such as Robert Owen.

The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

Author : James Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135014245X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age written by James Gregory and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.

Chartism

Author : Malcolm Chase
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847791360
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Chartism written by Malcolm Chase and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.

Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Charles Ryle Fay
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century written by Charles Ryle Fay and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1947 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performing the Temple of Liberty

Author : Jenna M. Gibbs
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421413388
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Performing the Temple of Liberty written by Jenna M. Gibbs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America. Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century, examining controversies over the place of black people in the Anglo-American moral imagination. Taking a transatlantic and nearly century-long view, Performing the Temple of Liberty draws on a wide range of performed texts as well as ephemera—broadsides, ballads, and cartoons—and traces changes in white racial attitudes. Gibbs asks how popular entertainment incorporated and helped define concepts of liberty, natural rights, the nature of blackness, and the evils of slavery while also generating widespread acceptance, in America and in Great Britain, of blackface performance as a form of racial ridicule. Readers follow the migration of theatrical texts, images, and performers between London and Philadelphia. The story is not flattering to either the United States or Great Britain. Gibbs's account demonstrates how British portrayals of Africans ran to the sympathetic and to a definition of liberty that produced slave manumission in 1833 yet reflected an increasingly racialized sense of cultural superiority. On the American stage, the treatment of blacks devolved into a denigrating, patronizing view embedded both in blackface burlesque and in the idea of "Liberty," the figure of the white goddess. Performing the Temple of Liberty will appeal to readers across disciplinary lines of history, literature, theater history, and culture studies. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will also take an interest in this provocative work.

Stars and Spies

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147355828X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Stars and Spies written by Christopher Andrew and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond. 'A treasure trove of human ingenuity' The Times Written by two experts in their fields, Stars and Spies is the first history of the extraordinary connections between the intelligence services and show business. We travel back to the golden age of theatre and intelligence in the reign of Elizabeth I. We meet the writers, actors and entertainers drawn into espionage in the Restoration, the Ancien Régime and Civil War America. And we witness the entry of spying into mainstream popular culture throughout the twentieth century and beyond - from the adventures of James Bond to the thrillers of John le Carré and long-running TV series such as The Americans. 'Thoroughly entertaining' Spectator 'Perfect...read as you settle into James Bond on Christmas afternoon.' Daily Telegraph

Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author : Kevin Binfield
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603293493
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Kevin Binfield and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind our contemporary experience of globalization, precarity, and consumerism lies a history of colonization, increasing literacy, transnational trade in goods and labor, and industrialization. Teaching British laboring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of class, status, and labor in relation to the historical developments that inform our lives as workers and members of society. This volume demonstrates pedagogical techniques and provides resources for students and teachers on autobiographies, broadside ballads, Chartism and other political movements, georgics, labor studies, satire, service learning, writing by laboring-class women, and writing by laboring people of African descent.

Chartist Biographies and Autobiographies

Author : Dr David Stevens
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chartist Biographies and Autobiographies written by Dr David Stevens and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1986 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare for Freedom

Author : Ewan Fernie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108298729
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare for Freedom written by Ewan Fernie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays, but also of the part they have played in theatre, criticism, civic culture and politics. Its story includes a glimpse of 'Freetown' in Romeo and Juliet, which comes to life in the 1769 Stratford Jubilee; the Shakespearean careers of the Leicester Chartist, Cooper, and the Hungarian hero, Kossuth; Hegel's recognition of Shakespearean freedom as the modern breakthrough; its fatal effects in America; the disgust it inspired in Tolstoy; its rehabilitation by Ted Hughes, and its obscure centrality in the 2012 Olympics. Ultimately, it issues a positive Shakespearean prognosis for freedom as a vital (in both senses), unending struggle. Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.