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Author Hall-Witt, Jennifer.

Title Fashionable acts : opera and elite culture in London, 1780-1880 / Jennifer Hall-Witt.

Publication Info. Durham : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3918.O64 H34 2007    Available  ---
Description ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Becoming modern
Becoming modern.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-366) and index.
Contents Act one : Georgian patterns. Overture : fashionable acts ; Opera as an "event" : the aesthetics of audience behavior ; A subscription culture : gender and the sociopolitical foundations of opera-going ; To see and to be seen : opera and the "theater of the great" -- Act two : Victorian adaptations. Overture to act two ; The commercialization of the opera : entrepreneurs and the expansion of the public ; The refashioning of fashionable society : gender and the transformation of operatic culture ; Listening in new ways : audience behavior and the cultural politics of opera reviewing -- Finale : opera and the reform of elite culture -- Appendixes. Prices at the King's/Her Majesty's theatre, 1780s-1880 ; Prices at Covent Garden, 1847-1879 ; London's Italian opera managers, 1705-1878 ; Additional tables.
Subject Opera -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- 18th century.
Opera -- Social aspects.
England -- London.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Opera.
Opera -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Opera -- Political aspects -- England -- London -- 18th century.
Opera -- Political aspects.
Opera -- Political aspects -- England -- London -- 19th century.
Elite (Social sciences) -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
Elite (Social sciences)
History.
Elite (Social sciences) -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Manners and customs.
Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN 9781584656258 cloth alkaline paper
1584656255 cloth alkaline paper

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