Marty Gould

Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital's theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative direction of the sort found in novels and travelogues, theatregoers were left to their own interpretive devices, making imperial drama both a powerful and yet uncertain site for the transmission of official imperial ideologies. Nineteenth-century playwrights fed the public's interest in Britain's Empire by producing a wide variety of plays set in colonial locales: India, Australia, and-to a lesser extent-Africa. These plays recreated the battles that consolidated Britain's hold on overseas territories, dramatically depicted western humanitarian intervention in indigenous cultural practices, celebrated images of imperial supremacy, and occasionally criticized the sexual and material excesses that accompanied the processes of empire-building.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136740534
• Artikelnr.: 38272466

Autorenporträt

Marty Gould is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of South Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Around the World in Eighty Plays 1: Role Britannia, Britannia
Rule the Stage: Imperial Theatricality Part I. The Nineteenth-Century
Theatrical Robinsonade 2. When the Novel Isn't Enough: Text and Performance
in The Cataract of the Ganges 3. Adapting a Nation to Empire: The Evolution
of the Crusoe Pantomime 4. Getting Crichton into Crusoe's Clothes: Caste
and the Castaway in The Admirable Crichton Part II. Theatrical Nabobery:
Imperial Wealth, Masculinity, and Metropolitan Identities 5. From
Historical Hype to Theatrical Hype: The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the
Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Tiger 6. "The Yellow Beams of His Oriental
Countenance": The Nabob as Racial and Cultural Hybrid 7. Australian Gold
Rush Plays and the Anglo-Indian Nabob's Antipodal Antithesis Part III.
Staging the Mutiny 8. India in the Limelight: Empire and the Theatre of War
9. The Empire Needs Men: Mutiny Plays and the Mobilization of Masculinity
10. Forging a Greater Britain: The Highland Soldier and the Renegotiation
of Ethnic Alterities Conclusion: The Boer War and the Shift from Stage to
Cinema