Acts of Manhood [electronic resource] : The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828-1865 /
Kippola, K.author.
Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.
Performing arts.
Sociology.
Theater.
Theater-History.
Performing Arts.
Gender Studies.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Theatre History.