Author : George Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58348328
Parlor Theatricals
George Arnold
Parlor Theatricals
Parlor Theatricals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Parlor Theatricals book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Confidence Men and Painted Women
Karen Halttunen
Author : Karen Halttunen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300037880
Confidence Men and Painted Women by Karen Halttunen Pdf
Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America. "An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. ... This book adds immeasurably to the current work on sentimental culture and American cultural history and brings to its task an inquisitive, fresh, and intelligent perspective. ... Essential reading for historians, literary critics, feminists, and cultural commentators who wish to study mid-nineteenth-century American culture and its relation to contemporary values."--Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly "A compelling and beautifully developed study. ... Halttunen provides us with a subtle book that gently unfolds from her mastery of the subject and intelligent prose."--Paula S. Fass, Journal of Social History "Halttunen has done her homework--the research has been tremendous, the notes and bibliography are impressive, and the text is peppered with hundreds of quotes--and gives some real insight into an area of American culture and history where we might have never bothered to look."--John Hopkins, Times Literary Supplement "The kind of imaginative history that opens up new questions, that challenges conventional historical understanding, and demonstrates how provocative and exciting cultural history can be."--William R. Leach, The New England Quarterly "A stunning contribution to American cultural history."--Alan Trachtenberg
The Amateur's Hand-book and Guide to Home Or Drawing Room Theatricals
Tony Denier
Author : Tony Denier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN : PRNC:32101065675249
The Amateur's Hand-book and Guide to Home Or Drawing Room Theatricals by Tony Denier Pdf
Composing Ourselves
Dorothy Chansky
Author : Dorothy Chansky
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0809326493
Composing Ourselves by Dorothy Chansky Pdf
When movies replaced theater in the early twentieth century, live drama was wide open to reform. A rebellion against commercialism, called the Little Theatre movement, promoted the notion that theatre is a valuable form of self-expression. Composing Ourselves argues that the movement was a national phenomenon that resulted in lasting ideas for serious theatre that are now ordinary parts of the American cultural landscape.
Make Room for TV
Lynn Spigel
Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226769639
Make Room for TV by Lynn Spigel Pdf
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521472040
The Cambridge History of American Theatre by Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby Pdf
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Staged Readings
Michael D'Alessandro
Author : Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472220588
Staged Readings by Michael D'Alessandro Pdf
Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America’s two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments—including numerous waves of immigration, two financial Panics, increasing wealth disparities, and the Civil War—American theater and literature were developing at unprecedented rates. Playhouses became crowded with new spectators, best-selling novels flew off the shelves, and, all the while, distinct social classes began to emerge. While the middle and upper classes were espousing conservative literary tastes and attending family matinees and operas, laborers were reading dime novels and watching downtown spectacle melodramas like Nymphs of the Red Sea and The Pirate’s Signal or, The Bridge of Death!!! As audiences traveled from the reading parlor to the playhouse (and back again), they accumulated a vital sense of social place in the new nation. In other words, culture made class in 19th-century America. Based in the historical archive, Staged Readings presents a panoramic display of mid-century leisure and entertainment. It examines best-selling novels, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and George Lippard’s The Quaker City. But it also analyzes a series of sensational melodramas, parlor theatricals, doomsday speeches, tableaux vivant displays, curiosity museum exhibits, and fake volcano explosions. These oft-overlooked spectacles capitalized on consumers’ previous cultural encounters and directed their social identifications. The book will be particularly appealing to those interested in histories of popular theater, literature and reading, social class, and mass culture.
Early tales and sketches
Mark Twain
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520043824
Early tales and sketches by Mark Twain Pdf
The Immigrant and the University
Karin Sveen
Author : Karin Sveen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520957121
The Immigrant and the University by Karin Sveen Pdf
Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush, he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street. Sather was a founder and a liberal benefactor of the University of California at Berkeley where he is memorialized by the Sather Gate and Sather Tower (the Campanile), three endowed professorships, and more recently the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. Karin Sveen, one of Norway’s most accomplished writers, pieces together a story yet untold—a beautifully crafted biography based on her dedicated search for scraps of information. The result gives readers a look at the life of a successful entrepreneur and a leading California patron who engaged in public education on all levels; supported Abraham Lincoln; and worked to give emancipated slaves housing, schooling, and employment after the Civil War. His legacy and vivid persona and the frontier city of his time are brought to life with interesting anecdotes of many famous people— General William T. Sherman, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and above all, his close friend Anthony J. Drexel, legendary Philadelphia financier and one of the founders of Wall Street.
Fire & Fiction
Anne Sophie Riepma
Author : Anne Sophie Riepma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488847
Fire & Fiction by Anne Sophie Riepma Pdf
Augusta Jane Evans, a nineteenth-century writer from the American South, produced bestsellers in the genre of the domestic novel, popular between the 1820s and 1880s. Evans was particularly good in creating strong and independent heroines. She is best known for her blockbuster St. Elmo (1866), featuring the love story of Edna Earl and the passionate St. Elmo Murray. In Fire and Fiction: Augusta Jane Evans in Context Anne Sophie Riepma reconstructs the literary, cultural, religious, social, and historical contexts of Evans's work. She explores the author's relation to her times and focuses on the way her novels reflect and address the cultural experiences of Southern women. Riepma pays particular attention to topics such as the ideology of domesticity, domestic fiction, the concept of “woman's sphere,” women's role in society, middle-class culture, education and employment for women, religion, reform, political developments, and the Confederate War.
On to Victory
Bettina Friedl
Author : Bettina Friedl
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 1555530737
On to Victory by Bettina Friedl Pdf
Dancing Class
Linda J. Tomko
Author : Linda J. Tomko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253028174
Dancing Class by Linda J. Tomko Pdf
This look at Progressive-era women and innovative cultural practices “blazes a new trail in dance scholarship” (Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year). From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the twentieth century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices. “Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies . . . the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes.” —Choice
Bookseller Newsman Incorporated
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433000305064
Bookseller Newsman Incorporated by Anonim Pdf
The Hamilton Speaker, a Collection of New and Original Extracts, Especially Arranged and Adapted for Reading, Speaking, Recitation and Elocutionary Culture, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges
Oliver Ernesto Branch
Author : Oliver Ernesto Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Readers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1IU3
The Hamilton Speaker, a Collection of New and Original Extracts, Especially Arranged and Adapted for Reading, Speaking, Recitation and Elocutionary Culture, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Oliver Ernesto Branch Pdf
The Theatre
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Actors
ISBN : IOWA:31858058761812
The Theatre by Anonim Pdf
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.