Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage [electronic resource] : Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 /
Westgate, J.author.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents .; Acknowledgments .; Introduction:  Darnton's Lament .; Part I  Modes of Staging the Slums .; 1.  "Strange Things" from the Bowery: ; 2.  "What the Poor of This Great City Must Endure": ; Part II  Slumming Destinations on Stage .; 3.  The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement .; 4.  The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods .; 5.  Touring the Red Lights District .; Part III  Case Studies in Slum Plays .; 6.  "Nothing More Infernal": ; 7.  "Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive": ; Notes .; Bibliography .; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Social history.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Arts.
Cultural studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.
Cultural Studies.