Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America / Amy E. Hughes.

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Hughes, Amy [author.]

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9780472028894
0472028898
1283941600
9781283941600

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spectacles of reform.DDC classification:

792.0973/09034 23

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PN2256 .H86 2012e

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Contents:

The body as/in/at the spectacle -- The delirium tremens: spectacular insanity in The drunkard -- The fugitive slave: Eliza's flight in Uncle Tom's cabin -- The railroad rescue: suffrage and citizenship in Under the gaslight -- Afterword: our sensations, our heroes, our freaks.

Subject: Explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology : a unique system of communication, employed in myriad context, that rehearses and sustains conceptions of race, gender and class in extremely powerful ways. Spectacle capitalizes on the sensational and the profane, embracing what is deliberately hidden or secretly imagined and giving it material form.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index.

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Explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology : a unique system of communication, employed in myriad context, that rehearses and sustains conceptions of race, gender and class in extremely powerful ways. Spectacle capitalizes on the sensational and the profane, embracing what is deliberately hidden or secretly imagined and giving it material form.

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