Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Laurence Senelick -- Rural life with urban strife: the evolution of rural drama in the late nineteenth century / by Amy Arbogast -- Marching off-beat and on screen: New York City's reform movements & Charles Hale Hoyt's A milk white flag / by Hillary Miller -- 'Wasn't America crowded enough wid out you forrinners?': staging immigration, assimilation, and social mobility in the Rooseveltian nation / by J. Chris Westgate -- Systematic Vaudeville and systematic farce: the unlikely team of Taylor and Schmidt / by Michael Schwartz -- Immigrant civic performances and historical pageantry: Columbus Day in Chicago, 1892/1913 / by Megan E. Geigner -- "Art in democracy" in the early houses of the Cleveland Play House / by Les Hunter -- New women and girls of today in motion: the "strenuous clasping" of tango teas / by Ariel Nereson -- Keaton, class, and social control: comic Vaudeville in the Progressive Era / by Rick Desrochers -- Celebrating childhood on the Vaudeville stage / by Gillian Arrighi -- Monstrosity or medical miracle?: incubator baby sideshows and the contradictions of the Progressive Era / by Susan Kattwinkel -- The Progressive Era's doctor-doper dyad / by Max Shulman -- Conclusion / by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate.
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