The Richmond Theater Fire : Early America's First Great Disaster

On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in anti-theater criticism that spre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.)
Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.) > Fire, 1811.
Theaters > Accidents
Fires
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Theâtres > Accidents > Virginie > Richmond.
Incendies > Virginie > Richmond.
Theaters > Accidents > Virginia > Richmond.
Fires > Virginia > Richmond.
Virginia > Richmond
Richmond (Va.) > History > 19th century.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in anti-theater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, min.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9780807143759

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