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Staging the slums, slumming the stage = class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 /

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Title/Author:	Staging the slums, slumming the stage/ J. Chris Westgate.
Reminder of title:	class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 /
Author:	Westgate, J. Chris.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	292 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Cultural studies - c 1800 to c 1900 - USA. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137357681 (electronic bk.) :

Staging the slums, slumming the stage = class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 /
Westgate, J. Chris.

Staging the slums, slumming the stageclass, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 /[electronic resource] :J. Chris Westgate. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 292 p. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.

Electronic book text.

Introduction: Darnton's Lament PART I: MODES OF STAGING THE SLUMS 1. Strange Things from the Bowery: The Tourism Narrative in Slum Plays 2. What the Poor of this Great City Must Endure: The Sociological Narrative in Slum Plays PART III: SLUMMING DESTINATIONS ON STAGE 3. The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement 4. The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods 5. Touring the Red Lights District PART III: CASE STUDIES IN SLUM PLAYS 6. Nothing More Infernal: Verisimilitude and Voyeurism in Salvation Nell 7. Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive: The Zangwill Plays.

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Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.Slum plays represent the different locations, attractions, and challenges of life in the slums such as tenements and tenants' rights, immigrant neighborhoods and nativist prejudices, and red-light districts and prostitution. This genre's rise in prominence took place precisely when the United States was shifting from one discursive regime of the slums to another: from Victorian notions of individualism and moralism to modern notions of spectacle and sociology. The productions of slum plays functioned as sites for the negotiation, interrogation, and dissemination of new and competing discourses of the slums for Broadway audiences during the Progressive Era. Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

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J. Chris Westgate is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Fullerton, USA.

ISBN: 1137357681 (electronic bk.) :£55.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1010906
Cultural studies
--USA.--c 1800 to c 1900

LC Class. No.: PN2226

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0973

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