Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From vengeance to sentiment
- 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger
- 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race
- 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence
- 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque
- 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness
- 7 Uncle Tom – moral high ground or low comedy?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From vengeance to sentiment
- 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger
- 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race
- 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence
- 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque
- 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness
- 7 Uncle Tom – moral high ground or low comedy?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Racism on the Victorian StageRepresentation of Slavery and the Black Character, pp. 240 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007