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  • 5 - Blackface Empire: or, the Slavery Meridian

  • from Part II - Theaters of Empire
  • Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Book:
    Strolling Players of Empire
    Published online:
    11 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 251-312

  • Summary

    How did blackness and whiteness figure in the patterns of life and represenation that moved across the eighteenth-century theatrical empire? Performances of blackface characters in colonial environments – in this case of Mungo, the enslaved Black Servant in the comic opera The Padlock – could take the lead in parsing, categorizing and enacting typologies of "darker-skinned" peoples with lasting effects – an embodied form of racial "knowledge" that undergirded the subordination of non-British peoples in the construction of a global laboring class.

  • 16 - Advice and Guidance

  • from Another Generation
  • David McKitterick, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Readers in a Revolution
    Published online:
    06 June 2022
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022, pp 251-279

  • Summary

    What of the choice of books from past generations? How should one choose? How far was a classical education a help? What about those who had no such education? For the top of the bibliophilic range there was considerable guidance on the kinds of books that had become established as those most desirable in a major private library where sufficient money was available. From the 1860s onwards there appeared a new kind of guidance, for people with less money and with different interests, including modern literature.