LEADER 03088oam 22006254a 450 001 9910453730503321 005 20210108054921.0 010 $a0-8173-8733-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001143144 035 $a(EBL)1458550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001645501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16413679 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001645501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14970947 035 $a(PQKB)10118093 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001162164 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11727633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001162164 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11132253 035 $a(PQKB)10402039 035 $a(OCoLC)860712637 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38489 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1458550 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001143144 100 $a20040812d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLaboring to Play$b[electronic resource] $eHome Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 /$fMelanie Dawson 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1449-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index. 327 $aLabor, 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. 330 $aA 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 606 $aMiddle class$xRecreation$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLeisure$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMiddle class$xRecreation$xHistory 615 0$aLeisure$xHistory 676 $a790.1 676 $a790.1/0973/09034 676 $a790.10973 676 $a790.1097309034 700 $aDawson$b Melanie$f1967-$01056731 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453730503321 996 $aLaboring to Play$92491306 997 $aUNINA