| Description |
1 online resource (x, 257 pages) |
| Contents |
Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories |
| Summary |
"Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, periodicals and newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, this book interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Leisure -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Middle class -- Recreation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
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Leisure
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Manners and customs
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Middle class -- Recreation
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Unterhaltung
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Mittelstand
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140534
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004019086 |
| ISBN |
9780817387334 |
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0817387331 |
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0817314490 |
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9780817314491 |
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