Introduction: a new race of men -- Act like a man: images and rhetoric of reconstructed manhood -- A glorious image of unperverted manhood: Edwin Forrest as masculine ideal -- A masculine identity worth dying for: the Astor Place Riot -- Decorum and delicacy: the feminized manliness of Edwin Booth -- Impossibly genial: the masculine transformations of John McCullough conclusion: affirming white masculinity by deriding the Other.
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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