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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Subjects:
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
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