The Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomines
Author : Sarah Annie Frost
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Annie Frost
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Amateur plays
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Author : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher : Boston : The Trustees
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Annie Frost
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN :
Author : George P. Delisser
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Horses
ISBN :
Author : New Haven Free Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1883
Category :
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Author : William Brisbane Dick
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Dialogues
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Author : Buffalo. Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Library catalogs
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472220586
Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America’s two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments—including numerous waves of immigration, two financial Panics, increasing wealth disparities, and the Civil War—American theater and literature were developing at unprecedented rates. Playhouses became crowded with new spectators, best-selling novels flew off the shelves, and, all the while, distinct social classes began to emerge. While the middle and upper classes were espousing conservative literary tastes and attending family matinees and operas, laborers were reading dime novels and watching downtown spectacle melodramas like Nymphs of the Red Sea and The Pirate’s Signal or, The Bridge of Death!!! As audiences traveled from the reading parlor to the playhouse (and back again), they accumulated a vital sense of social place in the new nation. In other words, culture made class in 19th-century America. Based in the historical archive, Staged Readings presents a panoramic display of mid-century leisure and entertainment. It examines best-selling novels, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and George Lippard’s The Quaker City. But it also analyzes a series of sensational melodramas, parlor theatricals, doomsday speeches, tableaux vivant displays, curiosity museum exhibits, and fake volcano explosions. These oft-overlooked spectacles capitalized on consumers’ previous cultural encounters and directed their social identifications. The book will be particularly appealing to those interested in histories of popular theater, literature and reading, social class, and mass culture.