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
Autor principal: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mittelstand
Unterhaltung
Middle class > Recreation.
Manners and customs.
Leisure.
SPORTS & RECREATION > General.
Loisir > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Middle class > Recreation > United States > History > 19th century.
Leisure > United States > History > 19th century.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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