Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform

ISBN-13: 9781009297530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Tracy C. Davis

Opis

Examining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective.

Recenzje

'Tracy Davis' timely and urgent study of the history of liberal campaigning in the Nineteenth Century insists on returning the question of performance to the history of activism. Drawing on the performance frames of mises en scene, repertoire and dramaturgy, Davis's excellent book reveals the performance tactics that activists deployed to make their case. This is Performance Studies at its best, revealing the theatre as a vital resource for the campaigning tactics underpinning Victorian repertoires of protest and persuasion that are still being used by activists today.' Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London

Spis treści

Introduction: History as Performance History; 1. Forms and Increments of Performance; 2. Change Making: Incrementalism; 3. Bildung: Leveraging Critique to Propel the Precarious into Political Life; 4. Combative Pens; 5. Experiments in Becoming.