Title: Laboring to play
First published: 2005
Description: "Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, periodicals and newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, this book interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Social life and customs, Recreation, Leisure, Middle class, SPORTS & RECREATION, General, Manners and customs, Unterhaltung, Mittelstand, Middle class, united states, United states, social life and customs
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: GV53 .D39 2005