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Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires
Tracy C. Davis
其他書名
Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform
出版Cambridge University Press, 2023-06
主題Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralPerforming Arts / Theater / GeneralSocial Science / Demography
ISBN10092975389781009297530
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-La9EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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'.