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Spectacles of Reform : Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028894
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spectacles of ReformDDC classification:
  • 792.0973/09034
LOC classification:
  • PN2256
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Body as/in/at the Spectacle -- Chapter 2. The Delirium Tremens: Spectacular Insanity in The Drunkard -- Chapter 3. The Fugitive Slave: Eliza's Flight in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 4. The Railroad Rescue: Suffrage and Citizenship in Under the Gaslight -- Afterword: Our Sensations, Our Heroes, Our Freaks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Body as/in/at the Spectacle -- Chapter 2. The Delirium Tremens: Spectacular Insanity in The Drunkard -- Chapter 3. The Fugitive Slave: Eliza's Flight in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 4. The Railroad Rescue: Suffrage and Citizenship in Under the Gaslight -- Afterword: Our Sensations, Our Heroes, Our Freaks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s.

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