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This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
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Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commer
Spectacles of Reform
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Pages: 261
Authors: Amy E. Hughes
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-17 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audien
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
Language: en
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Authors: Jeffrey H. Richards
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This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolutio
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Rebecca Fraser
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Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams'