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03992aam a2200505 i 4500 001 1869E608803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 220504t20222022miua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022017911 020 $a 0472133179 020 $a 9780472133178 035 $a (OCoLC)1285122643 040 $a MiU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN2248 $b .D35 2022 082 00 $a 792.0973090/34 $2 23/eng/20220519 084 $a LIT004020 $a LIT004020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a D'Alessandro, Michael F. $q (Michael Francis), $e author. 245 10 $a Staged readings : $b contesting class in popular American theater and literature, 1835-75 / $c Michael D'Alessandro. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xii, 316 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical refences and index. 520 3 $a "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". 650 0 $a Theater and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Social classes $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Books and reading. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836454 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071344 650 7 $a Social classes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122346 650 7 $a Theater and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149315 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), $e publisher. 776 08 $i Online version: $a D'Alessandro, Michael F. (Michael Francis) $t Staged readings $d Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022 $z 9780472220588 $w (DLC) 2022017912 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015424.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1869E608803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search