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Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Amy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Theater > United States > History > 19th century.
Theater and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
Spectacular, The, in literature.
Spectacular, The > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The body as/in/at the spectacle
  • The delirium tremens: spectacular insanity in The drunkard
  • The fugitive slave: Eliza's flight in Uncle Tom's cabin
  • The railroad rescue: suffrage and citizenship in Under the gaslight
  • Afterword: our sensations, our heroes, our freaks.