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Volume 7, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1750-3159
  • E-ISSN: 1750-3167

Abstract

Focusing on the revue 8d a Mile (1913), this study looks at how London West End revue constituted a particular response to mounting social, political and cultural insecurities over Britain’s status and position at the beginning of the twentieth century. Just as musical comedy had in many ways reflected Britain at its zenith, revue by comparison captured a feeling of decline. In revue’s shapeless and haphazard version of modernity, anxieties about degeneration and the condition and character of modern England became deeply problematized, providing a cultural expression of a fragile and changing social and political order.

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2013-03-01
2025-02-15
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  • Article Type: Article
Keyword(s): degeneration; gender; identity; nationalism; popular culture; race; revue
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