"A Nobler End": Mary Webb and the Victorian Platform. "A Nobler End": Mary Webb and the Victorian Platform.

"A Nobler End": Mary Webb and the Victorian Platform‪.‬

Nineteenth-Century Prose 2002, Spring, 29, 1

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This article calls for a more careful examination of dramatic reader Mary Webb, one of the first black women to take the public platform in Great Britain. It examines four sets of issues surrounding Webb's "performance" of race and takes the materials surrounding her 1856 Stafford House reading as its central texts. First, it considers the intersections of race, gender, and the public platform embodied in the promotion of the Stafford House reading. Second, it considers the spectacle of Webb's reading--including the ways in which Webb's public reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe's work breaks significantly with Stowe's relative silence on her first British tour. Third, it comparatively examines Webb's dramatic/rhetorical practices in dialogue with those of other black anti-slavery orators in Britain. Fourth, it begins to analyse the constitution and representation of Webb's audience. **********

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2002
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
28
Pages
PUBLISHER
Nineteenth-Century Prose
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
200.8
KB

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