Liberal lives and activist repertoires

• Verfasst von: Davis, Tracy C. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Liberal lives and activist repertoires
• Titelzusatz: political performance and Victorian social reform
• Verf.angabe: Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University, Illinois)
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xv, 377 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• ISBN: 978-1-009-29753-0
• ISBN: 1-009-29753-8
• DOI: doi:10.1017/9781009297554
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Aktivist / (s)Lebenslauf / (z)Geschichte 1800-1900
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: LIT024040
• Sach-SW: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
• Sach-SW: Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900
• Sach-SW: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Sach-SW: Theaterwissenschaft
• Sach-SW: Theatre studies
• K10plus-PPN: 1838244506

Abstract

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'