Laboring to play home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920 / Melanie Dawson.
| Author/creator | Dawson, Melanie, 1967- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, |
| Description | x, 257 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004019086 |
| ISBN | 0817314490 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |