Pioneer performances
Subtitle: staging the frontier
By: Matthew Rebhor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199751303
Subjects: History; In literature; Theater; History and criticism; American drama; Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Description: This volume offers a synoptic treatment of the history of American frontier performance ranging from Jacksonian America to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. It reconceives how the frontier was, and still is, defined in performance, and what it means for that frontier to be called 'American'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: manifest destinies: Buffalo Bill, Gowongo Mohawk, and the genealogy of American frontier performance; title: Edwin Forrest's Redding up: elocution, theater, and the performance of the frontier; title: The swamp aesthetic: James Kirke Paulding's frontiersman and the American melodrama of wonder; title: The burnt-cork pioneer: T. D. Rice and minstrelsy's frontier history; title: What is it?: the frontier, melodrama, and Bucicault's amalgamated drama; title: The great divide: pioneer performances after the Civil War; title: Afterword.