Laboring to Play [[electronic resource] ] : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 / / Melanie Dawson
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 790.1 |
| 790.1/0973/09034 | |
| 790.10973 | |
| 790.1097309034 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Middle class - Recreation - United States - History - 19th century |
| Leisure - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social life and customs 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Laboring to Play |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8733-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790893403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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