03524nam 22008655 450 991096210320332120240322042352.097813494716691349471666978113735764911373576499781137357687113735768110.1057/9781137357687(CKB)2670000000575741(EBL)1839652(SSID)ssj0001380739(PQKBManifestationID)11763630(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001380739(PQKBWorkID)11371338(PQKB)10401466(MiAaPQ)EBC1839652(DE-He213)978-1-137-35768-7(Perlego)3486772(EXLCZ)99267000000057574120160105d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStaging the Slums, Slumming the Stage Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 /by J. Westgate1st ed. 2014.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (293 p.)Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History,2947-5775Description based upon print version of record.9781322295886 1322295883 9781137359681 1137359684 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents .; Acknowledgments .; Introduction: Darnton's Lament .; Part I Modes of Staging the Slums .; 1. "Strange Things" from the Bowery: ; 2. "What the Poor of This Great City Must Endure": ; Part II Slumming Destinations on Stage .; 3. The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement .; 4. The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods .; 5. Touring the Red Lights District .; Part III Case Studies in Slum Plays .; 6. "Nothing More Infernal": ; 7. "Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive": ; Notes .; Bibliography .; IndexDrawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History,2947-5775Social structureEqualitySocial historyPerforming artsTheaterArtsCultureStudy and teachingSocial StructureSocial HistoryTheatre and Performance ArtsArtsCultural StudiesSocial structure.Equality.Social history.Performing arts.Theater.Arts.CultureStudy and teaching.Social Structure.Social History.Theatre and Performance Arts.Arts.Cultural Studies.812/.409355Westgate Jauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1791133BOOK9910962103203321Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage4328039UNINA