Acts of manhood : the performance of masculinity on the American stage, 1828-1865 /
Kippola, Karl M.,1966-
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: a new race of men -- Act like a man: images and rhetoric of reconstructed manhood -- A glorious image of unperverted manhood: Edwin Forrest as masculine ideal -- A masculine identity worth dying for: the Astor Place Riot -- Decorum and delicacy: the feminized manliness of Edwin Booth -- Impossibly genial: the masculine transformations of John McCullough conclusion: affirming white masculinity by deriding the Other.
Masculinity in the theater
Theater and society
Male actors