Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage

Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916

Gebonden Engels 2014 9781137359681
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Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

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ISBN13:9781137359681
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction: Darnton's Lament PART I: MODES OF STAGING THE SLUMS 1. "Strange Things" from the Bowery: The Tourism Narrative in Slum Plays 2. "What the Poor of this Great City Must Endure": The Sociological Narrative in Slum Plays PART III: SLUMMING DESTINATIONS ON STAGE 3. The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement 4. The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods 5. Touring the Red Lights District PART III: CASE STUDIES IN SLUM PLAYS 6. "Nothing More Infernal": Verisimilitude and Voyeurism in Salvation Nell 7. "Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive": The Zangwill Plays

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