Staged Readings

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

D'Alessandro, Michael

The University of Michigan Press

09/2022

330

Dura

Inglês

9780472133178

15 a 20 dias

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Contents

Introduction: The Page, the Stage, and Social Distancing in Nineteenth-Century America

1 George Lippard's "Theatre of Hell": Apocalyptic Melodrama and Working-Class Spectatorship in the Quaker City

2 A "Blue-Bottle, Fiery-Eyed Devil": Washingtonian-Era Temperance Drama and the Making of Middle-Class Culture

3 A Novel National Drama: Restaging the South, Reviving the "Tragic Mulatta" in Boucicault's The Octoroon

4 Social Stages: Performing Literature and Claiming Culture in Victorian America

Epilogue: "Little" Louisa

Notes

Index
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Melodrama;Social class;Sensation literature;Nineteenth-century American literature;Nineteenth-century American theater;Parlor theatricals;Tableaux vivants;Playbills;Amateur theater;Popular culture;Mass culture;Dime novels;George Lippard;The Quaker City;Millenarianism;Millerites;temperance drama;Washingtonians;The Drunkard;The Octoroon;Minstrelsy;Blackface performance;Harriet Beecher Stowe;Uncle Tom's Cabin;Blue Beard;Louisa May Alcott