Author: Ann StephensPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368849271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Phemie Frost's Experiences
Author: Ann StephensPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368849271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Phemie Frost's Experiences
Author: Ann Sophia StephensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Cincinnati Public Library
Author: Finding List of the Apprentices' Library ...
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Finding List of the Apprentices' Library Established and Maintained by the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Finding List of the Free Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Fear of Sinking
Author: Paulette D. KilmerPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499395
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In this provocative study, Paulette D. Kilmer examines the ways in which the national preoccupation with success and its attendant anxieties have been manifested in popular culture. Her focus is on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - an era in which industrial growth and urbanization wrought enormous changes in the country.
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.
The Literary World
Author: Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Detroit
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description