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Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires : Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform Hardback
by Tracy C. (Northwestern University, Illinois) Davis
Hardback
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This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgrounds who were deeply attuned to the power of performance.
Tracy C. Davis explores nineteenth-century reform campaigns through the pioneering work of a family of activists - prominent anti-slavery lecturer George Thompson, his daughter Amelia (the first female theatre and music critic for a British daily newspaper) and her husband, the political organizer Frederick Chesson.
Engaging in some of the most important social struggles of the late Georgian and Victorian periods - including abolition, enfranchisement, and anti-genocide - this book reveals how two generations' insights into performance consolidated into activist tactics that persist today.
Characterised by a skilful deployment of performance theory alongside deep and wide-ranging historical knowledge, this ground-breaking work demonstrates what 'dramaturgy' can teach us about 'history'.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781009297530
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009297530