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Restaging the Future
An examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Louise Owen traces the uneasy entanglement of performance with neoliberalism's marketization of social life. Focusing on this...
Barry Island
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Author’s Note Introduction Chapter 1 ‘Much Frequented During the Bathing Season’: Barry Island and Welsh Coastal Tourism, c. 1780-c. 1860 Chapter 2 ‘That Favourite Place’: Cardiff’s Bathing Resort, c. 1860-1877 Chapter 3 Visitors ‘Mercilessly’ Turned Away: The Island Closed, 1878-1884 Chapter 4 Reclaimed, 1884-c.1890 Chapter 5 An ‘El Dorado Where Soft Winds Blow’: Resort Boosterism Flourishes in the 1890s Chapter 6 ‘Awake ye Sluggards!’ Resort Development Flounders, c. 1900-1914 Chapter 7 ‘They Sweep Down on the Place and Take Possession of It’: Trippers Triumphant, c. 1890-c. 1910 Chapter 8 Barry-on-Sea? The Tripper Resort Consolidated, 1914-c.1965 Conclusion Bibliography
