Acts of manhood : the performance of masculinity on the American stage, 1828-1865 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kippola, Karl M., 1966-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Subjects:	Masculinity in the theater > United States > History > 19th century. Theater and society > United States > History > 19th century. Male actors > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a new race of men
Act like a man: images and rhetoric of reconstructed manhood
A glorious image of unperverted manhood: Edwin Forrest as masculine ideal
A masculine identity worth dying for: the Astor Place Riot
Decorum and delicacy: the feminized manliness of Edwin Booth
Impossibly genial: the masculine transformations of John McCullough conclusion: affirming white masculinity by deriding the Other.