| Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Westgate, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137359684 ISBN-13: 9781137359681 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
| Dewey: 812.409 |
| LCCN: 2014015775 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.83 lbs) 278 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |