LEADER 03828nam 2200505 450 001 9910754098303321 005 20231110011721.0 010 $a3-031-34013-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30825231 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30825231 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928551871100041 100 $a20231110d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFailure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre $ePedagogy of the Oppressors /$fJames F. Wilson 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cMacmillan Palgrave,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Series 311 08$aPrint version: Wilson, James F. Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9783031340123 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "Unbecoming Teachers" -- Chapter Breakdown and Description -- Chapter 2: "All the Single Ladies": A Century of Schoolmarms, Spinsters, and Superwomen Teachers -- "A Social Nemesis" -- The Little Teacher: A Kind, Gentle, and Pistol-Packin' Schoolmarm -- Autumn Crocus: Fanny Gray, or "The Little Brown Lady" -- The Corn Is Green: Meet Miss Moffat, "An Educated Woman" -- The Durable Trope -- "Women, Where Are We Going?" -- Chapter 3: Lesbians, Vampires, and Vermin: The Unspeakable Dangers of Unfit Teachers, 1920s-1940s -- Fat, Insane, and Unfit to Teach -- "Just as Unnatural as It Could Be" -- No Lesbians Here -- "What Sort of a Fag Do You Call Yourself?" -- "Panic, Just Panic, that Drove Me from One to Another" -- Chapter 4: Commies on Campus: Radical Liberalism and Academic Freedom, 1940s-1950s -- "Dress Rehearsal for McCarthyism" -- Football Heroes, Unconfused Liberals, and Blatherskites -- "Let's Go!" -- Thorium Plates, Loyalty Oaths, and Communists in the Guise of Educators -- "A Trifle Marxian" -- Soft-Boiled Liberals and Hard-Boiled Eggheads -- Chapter 5: Crème de la Crème of Fascism: Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Margarida, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explain It All for You, 1960s-1980s -- Progressive Attitudes and Mental Pablum -- Leading out and Feeding in -- Everyone Wants to Be Miss Margarida -- Roman Catholic Fascism -- Chapter 6: Failure to Achieve: A Report Card on Male Educators in the Theatre -- The Occupation of Second Choosers -- The Right Kind of Men -- Birth of the Sophist and Pedant -- "Himmler of the Lower Fifth" -- "An Old Bog in the History Department" -- "What Malice Can There Be in a Child?" -- "Not What I Mean at All" -- "Term of Art" -- "To Become Soft Again" -- Chapter 7: Epilogue: "Becomes a Student" -- Appendix: Teacher Plays and Musicals by Year. 327 $aBibliography -- Archival Collections -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Articles, Books, and Book Chapters -- Index. 410 0$aPalgrave studies in theatre and performance history. 606 $aAmerican drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFailure (Psychology) in literature 606 $aRadicalism in literature 606 $aTeachers in literature 615 0$aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFailure (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aRadicalism in literature. 615 0$aTeachers in literature. 676 $a812.509 700 $aWilson$b James F.$f1892-1975,$01436316 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910754098303321 996 $aFailure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre$93594858 997 $aUNINA