Staging the slums, slumming the stage class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Westgate, J. Chris.
• 出版： Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• 版本：1st ed.
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
• 主題： Cultural studies--c 1800 to c 1900--c 1900 - c 1914--USA. , History of the Americas--c 1800 to c 1900--c 1900 - c 1914--USA. , Performing Arts. , Social & cultural history--c 1800 to c 1900--c 1900 - c 1914--USA. , Theatre studies--c 1800 to c 1900--c 1900 - c 1914--USA.
• ISBN： 1137357681 (electronic bk.): £55.00 、 9781137357687 (electronic bk.): £55.00 、 9781137359681
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Introduction: Darnton's Lament PART I: MODES OF STAGING THE SLUMS 1. Strange Things from the Bowery: The Tourism Narrative in Slum Plays 2. What the Poor of this Great City Must Endure: The Sociological Narrative in Slum Plays PART III: SLUMMING DESTINATIONS ON STAGE 3. The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement 4. The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods 5. Touring the Red Lights District PART III: CASE STUDIES IN SLUM PLAYS 6. Nothing More Infernal: Verisimilitude and Voyeurism in Salvation Nell 7. Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive: The Zangwill Plays. Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137359681.
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• 摘要註: Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein. Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage is deeply researched, carefully contextualized, broad in scope, thoughtful about assessing what has and has not been done in the field, and just plain fascinating. This is not only an important work in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century drama and theatre, but also a major contribution to American Studies. It amplifies and 'corrects' in thoughtful and complex ways our understanding of the Progressive Era, offering a substantive methodology in performing necessary revisionist investigation. - Susan Harris Smith, Professor, English, University of Pittsburgh, USA J. Chris Westgate's bold new approach to the ethical complexities behind Progressive-Era representations of and engagement with urban poverty unearths a period in American theatre history that has lain mostly fallow for over a century. A highly readable yet deeply probing archaeological study of this lost era, Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage masterfully answers an early drama critic's query, 'What is the purpose of this elaborate exploitation of the slums?' - Robert M. Dowling, author of Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem and Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts This fascinating and detailed study about the practices of slumming and Progressive-Era theatre deserves to be widely read. Westgate's engaging prose and thorough research demonstrate the stakes of theatricalizing urban poverty. With compelling readings of Progressive-Era plays about slum life, Westgate shows how enactment is vital to cultural discourse about the poor. As the first book-length project devoted to the theatricalization of slumming, Staging the Slums offers a new understanding of the development of modernity in U.S. theatre and society. - Katie N. Johnson, Associate Professor, Miami University, USA and author of Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America.
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