Author: afterwards SHEILDS FROST (S. Annie)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Amateur Theatricals and Fairy-tale Dramas
Author: Sarah Annie Frost
Publisher:
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Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Publisher:
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Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Amateur Theatricals and Fairy-tale Dramas. A collection of ... plays, ... designed for drawing-room performance
Author: afterwards SHEILDS FROST (S. Annie)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Art of Dressing Well. A Complete Guide to Economy, Style and Propriety of Costume ... To which are Added One Hundred Hints for Dressing Well
Author: afterwards SHEILDS FROST (S. Annie)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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W. H. Lingard's On the Beach at Long Branch. Song Book, containing all his original songs, etc
Author: William Horace LINGARD
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
North's Book of Love Letters
Author: Ingoldsby North
Publisher:
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Category : Love-letters
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Publisher:
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Category : Love-letters
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The Art of Dressing Well
Author: Sarah Annie Frost
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations ...
Author: Arthur Martine
Publisher:
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Staged Readings
Author: Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472220586
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472220586
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
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.
The Modern Pocket Hoyle
Author: Edmond Hoyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Modern Pocket Hoyle
Author: William Brisbane Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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