Laboring to play : home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920 /

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"Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, periodicals and newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, this book interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Temas:
1800-1899
Leisure > United States > History > 19th century.
Middle class > Recreation > United States > History > 19th century.
Loisir > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SPORTS & RECREATION > General.
Leisure
Manners and customs
Middle class > Recreation
Unterhaltung
Mittelstand
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, periodicals and newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, this book interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 257 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
ISBN:9780817387334
0817387331
0817314490
9780817314491

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