Author: Henry Dalton (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Evening Amusements and Book of Drawing-room Plays
Author: Henry Dalton (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Book of Drawing-room Plays and Evening Amusements
Author: Henry Dalton (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Staged Readings
Author: Michael D'AlessandroPublisher: 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.
Double Acrostics. By various authors. Edited by K. L. ... Second edition, revised and enlarged
Author: K. L.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Bookseller
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
("Advance Ed."). Publishers & Stationers Trade List Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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