Performing the Progressive Era
Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
298 pages
978-1-60938-647-4 (ISBN)
Description
The American Progressive Era is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In this volume, editors bring together scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre studies to examine the burst of diverse performance venues and styles of the time, revealing how they shaped national narratives surrounding immigration and urban life.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-647-4 (9781609386474)
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Persons
Max Shulman is assistant professor of theatre in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
J. Chris Westgate is professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays and Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916.
J. Chris Westgate is professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays and Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916.