04254nam 2200673 450 991046563660332120210430211920.01-5017-0398-61-5017-0399-410.7591/9781501703997(CKB)3710000000656720(EBL)4526404(SSID)ssj0001669303(PQKBManifestationID)16461257(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669303(PQKBWorkID)14828835(PQKB)11302220(StDuBDS)EDZ0001599458(MiAaPQ)EBC4526404(OCoLC)948756592(MdBmJHUP)muse51408(DE-B1597)478524(OCoLC)979911498(DE-B1597)9781501703997(Au-PeEL)EBL4526404(CaPaEBR)ebr11248720(CaONFJC)MIL951831(EXLCZ)99371000000065672020160904h20162016 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe soul of pleasure sentiment and sensation in nineteenth-century American mass entertainment /David MonodIthaca, New York ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (308 p.)Includes index.1-5017-0238-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter 1. Enter Sentimentality: The Origins of the Entertainment Revolution --Chapter 2. Laugh and Grow Fat: Minstrelsy and Burlesque --Chapter 3. Looking Through: Sentimental Aesthetics --Chapter 4. The Democratization of Entertainment: The Concert Saloons --Chapter 5. Any Dodge Is Fair to Raise a Good Sensation: The Danger and Promise of Sensationalism --Chapter 6. Art with the Effervescence of Ginger Beer: The Creation of Vaudeville --Chapter 7. Spectacle and Nostalgia on the Road: Traveling Shows --Conclusion --Notes --IndexShow business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment. The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture-minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows-and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America's first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment's variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.Performing artsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmusementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Performing artsHistoryPopular cultureHistoryAmusementsHistory791.097309034Monod David1960-1055079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465636603321The soul of pleasure2488203UNINA01132nam 2200313Ia 450 99638770420331620221107233230.0(CKB)4940000000086563(EEBO)2248520106(OCoLC)47012615(EXLCZ)99494000000008656320010525d1659 uy 0engurbn||||a|bb|The penns dexterity[electronic resource] by these incomparable contractions by which a sentence is writt as soone as a word allowed by authority and past the two universitys with greate approbation and aplause. /Invented and taught by Ieremiah Rich 1659[London s.n.]16598 sheets illPlace of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.)Reproduction of original in: University of London. Library.eebo-0169ShorthandTablesEarly works to 1800ShorthandRich Jeremiahd. 1660?1001098EAEEAEBOOK996387704203316The penns dexterity2398327UNISA