Staged Readings

Staged Readings

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

D'Alessandro, Michael F.

The University of Michigan Press

09/2022

312

Dura

Inglês

9780472133178

15 a 20 dias

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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; Millenarianism; Millerites; temperance drama; Washingtonians; The Drunkard; The Octoroon; Minstrelsy; Blackface performance; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Blue Beard; Louisa May Alcott; The Quaker City