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Autore |
Dawson Melanie <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Laboring to Play [[electronic resource] ] : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 / / Melanie Dawson |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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790.1 |
790.1/0973/09034 |
790.10973 |
790.1097309034 |
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Soggetti |
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Middle class - Recreation - United States - History - 19th century |
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
United States Social life and customs 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A compelling analysis of how ""middling"" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test |
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