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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453968503321

Autore

Faulk Barry J

Titolo

Music hall & modernity [[electronic resource] ] : the late-Victorian discovery of popular culture / / Barry J. Faulk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8214-4139-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Classificazione

820.9357 FAU

Disciplina

820.9/357

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) in literature

Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) - England - London - History - 19th century

English literature - England - London - History and criticism

Performing arts - England - London - History - 19th century

Popular culture - England - London - History - 19th century

Performing arts in literature

Popular culture in literature

Electronic books.

London (England) Intellectual life 19th century

London (England) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the popular not the public -- Music hall : the middle class makes a subculture -- Camp expertise : Arthur Symons, music hall, and the defense of theory -- Spies and experts : Laura Ormiston Chant among late-Victorian professionals -- Tales of the culture industry : professional women, mimic men, and Victorian music hall -- "Spectacular" bodies : tableaux vivants at the Palace Theatre -- Conclusion : Cyrene at the Alhambra.

Sommario/riassunto

The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to



secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare. These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture of "the people."    In examining fiction from Walter Besant, Hall Caine, and Henry Nevinson, performance criticism from William Arche