Racism on the Victorian Stage : Representation of Slavery and the Black Character.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 From vengeance to sentiment -- HISTORICALB ACKGROUND -- OROONOKO - THE SOURCE -- 'VENGEANCE IS STILL ALIVE . . .' -- 'ME WISH TO DE LORD ME WAS DEAD' -- SLAVERY AND SENTIMENT -- CHAPTER 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger -- THE LAST OF SENTIMENT -- A SEA CHANGE -- THE GAMBIA TWIST -- 'A BLOW, AND YET THE STRIKER LIVES!' -- 'DANCE, YOU BLACK ANGELS!' -- CHAPTER 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race -- ALDRIDGE'S ROLES -- Obi -- or, Three-fingered Jack -- Othello and after -- The Black Doctor -- Titus Andronicus -- ALDRIDGE'S LEGACY -- CHAPTER 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence -- CHARLES MATHEWS -- BLACKFACE PERFORMANCE -- CROW MANIA -- JIM CROW PLAYS -- THE NEW AND THE OLD -- A NEW RACISM? -- CHAPTER 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque -- DINAH AND HER SISTERS -- HAVING IT BOTH WAYS -- AFTER CROW, WHAT? -- CHAPTER 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness -- THE 'SIGN OF THE BEAST' -- 'THE DESPISED CREOLE' -- OLD ENGL AND AND LIBERTY -- CHAPTER 7 Uncle Tom - moral high ground or low comedy? -- 'SELECT SCENES AND JOIN THEM TOGETHER' -- 'WESLEYAN TALKEE TALKEE' -- 'WHY NOT DIS NIGGER?' -- THE SLAVE DRAMA AS DOMES TIC MELODRAMA -- CASSY - THE FEMALE AVENGER -- UNCLE TOM, OLD TOM AND ANTI-TOMISM -- DRED - A NEW DIRECTION? -- Afterword -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- AFTERWORD -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY MATERIAL - PLAYS -- PRIMARY MATERIAL - BACKGROUND -- JOURNALS -- SECONDARY MATERIAL - BOOKS -- SECONDARY MATERIAL - ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS -- Index.