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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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 participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Description matérielle:1 online resource (269 pages).
ISBN:9780817387334

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