Examining activist performance techniques, this book shows how women and men could deeply influence public life in the nineteenth century.

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We often know performance when we see it – but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how

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This lively and highly innovative book reconstructs the texture and meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry. Integrating theories of