| Description |
1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) 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. |
| Summary |
Explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology : a unique system of communication, employed in myriad context, that rehearses and sustains conceptions of race, gender and class in extremely powerful ways. Spectacle capitalizes on the sensational and the profane, embracing what is deliberately hidden or secretly imagined and giving it material form. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Theater. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Theater and society. |
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American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
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Spectacular, The, in literature.
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Spectacular, The, in literature. |
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Spectacular, The -- History -- 19th century.
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Spectacular, The. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hughes, Amy. Spectacles of reform. Ann Arbor : the University of Michigan Press, 2012 9780472118625 (DLC) 2012033645 (OCoLC)793221901 |
| ISBN |
9780472028894 (electronic book) |
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0472028898 (electronic book) |
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1283941600 (electronic book) |
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9781283941600 (electronic book) |
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9780472118625 |
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0472118625 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.4993455 |
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