Author: William R. LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A History of the Boston Dispensary
Author: William R. LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A History of the Boston Dispensary
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382300192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
History of the American Theatre: New Foundations
Author: George O. SeilhamerPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
History of the American Theatre
Author: Records Relating to the Early History of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.) Registry DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Records Relating to the Early History of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the City of Boston
Author: Samuel G. DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Cumulated Index to the Books
Author: The Soul of Pleasure
Author: David MonodPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment.The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.