Laboring To Play Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
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- Hardcover ausgewählt
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 62.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2008
Abbildungen
21 illustrations
Verlag
The University of Alabama PressSeitenzahl
272
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/16.4/2.7 cm
Gewicht
588 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8173-1449-1
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.
"The purposes of "Laboring to Play are several: to give new and sustained attention to the parlor as an important site of social and cultural formation; to consider the ways in which home entertainment texts and practices helped shape an emerging middle-class identity in the United States; to chart the evolution of such texts and practices and thus also their changing effects on class formation; to extend existing scholarship on the middle class; to reexamine the inter-relationship of work and play in American culture; and to explore the roles of pleasure and game-playing in American identity. Highly effective are the detailed readings of the 'entertainment chronotope' in a number of important American literary texts, including Alcott's "Little Women, Wharton's "The House of Mirth, Lewis's "Main Street, Gilman's "Herland, and Cather's "My Antonia."--William Gleason, author of "The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940.
"A learned and engaging analysis based on an impressive body of research. . . . Dawson's focus on entertainment in the home has the benefit of providing us with a close and careful look at the intersections between ideologies of domesticity, class, and leisure."--Cynthia J. Davis, author of "Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine in American Literature, 1845-1915
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