Spectacles of Reform : Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (261 pages)
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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