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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. It focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (312 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501703997 |