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...
Main Author: | Monod, David, 1960- (Author) |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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