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Author:

Westgate, J. Chris, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008052409

Title:

Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / J. Chris Westgate.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 278 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
Slums in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Urban poor in literature.
Theater--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--History.
American drama.
Immigrants in literature.
Slums in literature.
Theater.
Urban poor in literature.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (State)--Broadway.--Broadway.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Darnton's lament -- Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays -- "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays -- Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement -- The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods -- Touring the red lights district -- Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell -- "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays.

Series:

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

ISBN:

1137359684
9781137359681

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881655948

LCCN:

2014015775

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)