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Author:

Hughes, Amy.

Title:

Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America / Amy E. Hughes.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Theater--United States--History--19th century.
Theater and society--United States--History--19th century.
American drama--19th century--History and criticism.
Spectacular, The, in literature.
Spectacular, The--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The body as/in/at the spectacle -- The delirium tremens: spectacular insanity in The drunkard -- The fugitive slave: Eliza's flight in Uncle Tom's cabin -- The railroad rescue: suffrage and citizenship in Under the gaslight -- Afterword: our sensations, our heroes, our freaks.

ISBN:

0472028898 (e-book)
9780472028894 (e-book)
0472118625 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472118625 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793221901

LCCN:

2012033645

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)