Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments
Author : Robert McLean Cumnock
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Elocution
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Author : Robert McLean Cumnock
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Elocution
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Author : Robert McLean Cumnock
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Elocution
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Author : Robert McLean Cumnock
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Elocution
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Elocution
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Author : John W. Iliff
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Elocution
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Author : L. T. Remlap
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 188?
Category : Elocution
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Author : Melanie Dawson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0817357645
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time. The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles. From 19th-century parlor games involving grotesque physical contortions to early-20th-century recitations of an idealized past, leisure employments mediated between domestic and public spheres, individuals and class-based affiliations, and ideals of egalitarian social life and visible hierarchies based on privilege. Negotiating these paradigms, home entertainments provided their participants with unique ways of performing displays of individual ambitions within a world of polite social interaction. Laboring to Play deals with subjects as wide ranging as social performances, social history (etiquette and gentility), literary history, representations of childhood, and the history of the book.
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1885
Category : American literature
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American national trade bibliography.
Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Jeremy C. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107114624
This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements.