Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 /

Slum plays represent the different locations, attractions, and challenges of life in the slums such as tenements and tenants' rights, immigrant neighborhoods and nativist prejudices, and red-light districts and prostitution. This genre's rise in prominence took place precisely when the Uni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Westgate, J. Chris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Colección:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Temas:
1900-1999
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Slums in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Urban poor in literature.
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Théâtre américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Immigrants dans la littérature.
Pauvres en milieu urbain dans la littérature.
DRAMA > American.
American drama
Immigrants in literature
Slums in literature
Theater
Urban poor in literature
Amerikanisches Englisch
Drama
Slum > Motiv
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Broadway
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Darnton's lament
  • Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays
  • "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays
  • Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement
  • The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods
  • Touring the red lights district
  • Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell
  • "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays.

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