representation of slavery and the black character /
Hazel Waters.
Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-239) and index.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 From vengeance to sentiment; CHAPTER 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger; CHAPTER 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race; CHAPTER 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence; CHAPTER 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque; CHAPTER 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness; CHAPTER 7 Uncle Tom -- moral high ground or low comedy?; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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A study of the black presence on the Victorian English stage.
Racism on the Victorian stage.
0521862620
English drama-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Prejudices in literature.
Racism in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Theater and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.