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Author:

Kippola, Karl M., 1966-

Title:

Acts of manhood : the performance of masculinity on the American stage, 1828-1865 / Karl M. Kippola.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Masculinity in the theater--United States--History--19th century.
Theater and society--United States--History--19th century.
Male actors--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

ISBN:

0230340458 (alk. paper)
9780230340459 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)778314567

LCCN:

2012002518

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)