Staging the slums, slumming the stage class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916

Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / J. Chris Westgate.

Author/creator	Westgate, J. Chris
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description	xii, 278 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	American drama--20th century --History and criticism. Slums in literature. Immigrants in literature. Urban poor in literature. Theater--New York (State) --New York --History --20th century. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Series	Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Contents	Introduction: Darnton's lament -- Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays -- "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays -- Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement -- The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods -- Touring the red lights district -- Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell -- "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014015775
ISBN	9781137359681 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781349471669

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