Cultivating national identity through performance : American pleasure gardens and entertainment

• 作者： Stubbs, Naomi J., 1981-, author.
• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
• 出版： New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
• 主題： Gardens--United States--History. , Gardens--Social aspects--United States. , Amusements--United States--History. , Performance art--United States--History. , GARDENING / Essays , GARDENING / Reference , GARDENING / Vegetables , SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture , United States--Social life and customs. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9781137326874 (electronic bk.) 、 1137326875 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Performing nation: the pleasure gardens as a space for defining America -- Performing place: the rural/urban tension -- Performing class: the challenge to and reaffirmation of class divisions and hierarchies -- Performing race: Native Americans and African Americans within the gardens -- Beyond the pleasure garden.
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• 摘要註: Combining the charms of the country with the convenience of the city and delivering a healthy dose of both entertainment and education, American pleasure gardens were ubiquitous between the Revolution and the Civil War. Patrons of these entertainment venues would have expected to see plays, concerts, fairs, mechanical and artistic exhibits, fireworks, volcanic eruptions, and - perhaps more crucially - they would have expected to see and be seen. As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pleasure gardens presented citizens with public spaces where they could explore what it meant to be American. The very nature of American pleasure gardens provided an effective location for the exploration of and experimentation with American identities, due to their nature as simultaneously rural and urban, modern and nostalgic, British and American, white and racialized, and democratic and class-conscious. Stubbs examines how these once popular venues helped form American identity using nation, class, race, and the agrarian ideal as touchstones and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.
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