Politics, performance and popular culture (EPUB) von Peter Yeandle

Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.

Introduction: politics, performance and popular culture - Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards
Part I: Conceptualising performance, theorising politics
1. 'To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England' - Robert Poole
2. The platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism - Michael Sanders
3. 'Bubbles of the day': the melodramatic and the pantomimic - Katherine Newey
4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and legitimate/illegitimate divide - Caroline Radcliffe
5. Performances for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and the contested didactics of the stage - Anselm Heinrich
6. Women's suffrage and theatricality - Sos Eltis
Part II: Politics in performance
7. English pantomime and the Irish question - Jill Sullivan
8. 'Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet - Jane Pritchard and Peter Yeandle
9. Drury Lane imperialism - Jeffrey Richards
Part III: The performance of politics
10. 'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 - Malcolm Chase
11. Robert Peel - actor dramatist - Richard Gaunt
12. The performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage - Janice Norwood
13. Class, performance and socialist politics: the political campaigns of early labour leaders - Marcus Morris
Index

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.