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The soul of pleasure : sentiment and sensation in nineteenth-century American mass entertainment /
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as this work demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not 'natural': it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The volume offers a n...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Enter sentimentality : the origins of the entertainment revolution
- Laugh and grow fat : minstrelsy and burlesque
- Looking through : sentimental aesthetics
- The democratization of entertainment : the concert saloons
- Any dodge is fair to raise a good sensation : the danger and promise of sensationalism
- Art with the effervescence of ginger beer : the creation of vaudeville
- Spectacle and nostalgia on the road : traveling shows.