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Author Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950-

Title Horrible prettiness : burlesque and American culture / Robert C. Allen.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN1948.U6 A45 1991    Available  ---
Description xvi, 350 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series Cultural studies of the United States
Cultural studies of the United States.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-343) and index.
Contents A chronicle of Lydia Thompson's first season in America -- The intelligibility of burlesque -- The historical contexts of burlesque I: the transformation of American theater -- The historical contexts of burlesque II: women on the stage -- "Ixion" revisited -- The institutionalization of burlesque -- Burlesque at century's end -- Burlesque in the twentieth century.
Subject Burlesque (Theater) -- United States -- History.
Burlesque (Theater)
United States.
History.
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Popular culture.
ISBN 0807819603 alkaline paper
0807843164 paperback alkaline paper