ISBN:
0817314490
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 257 S
,
Ill
,
24 cm
DDC:
790.1/0973/09034
Keywords:
Leisure History 19th century
;
Middle class Recreation 19th century
;
History
;
United States Social life and customs 19th century
;
USA
;
Mittelstand
;
Unterhaltung
;
Geschichte 1850-1920
Abstract:
Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories
Description / Table of Contents:
Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004019086.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004019086-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004019086.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004019086-b.html
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