Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture

Aimed at scholars across several disciplines, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture centres on the professional life of one, very significant historical songwriter, performer, and theatre manager, who was central to the invention of the one-man show. It is not a biography, but looks at a single career as a way into exploring all avenues of late Georgian cultural life and how they interconnect in unexpected, complex ways. Unified by the involvement of Dibdin and his two sons, discussions span issues of race, entertainment, music, the press, the theatre, fine art, print culture, naval and military history, Austen studies, gender, politics, identity, and commerce, in a critical period of British and metropolitan history. Fittingly, the book’s contributors are leading representatives of many of these fields, who have collaborated on a major re-evaluation of late Georgian culture.