Spectacular Men
Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2017
288 pages
978-0-19-065369-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and plays implicitly and explicitly addressed the risks and rewards of citizenship. Ranging from representations of the heroes of the American Revolution to images of doomed Indians to plays about ancient Rome, Chinn unearths dozens of plays rarely read by critics. Spectacular Men places the theatre at the center of the self-creation of working white men, as voters, as workers, and as Americans.
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Sarah E. Chinn is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College at the City University of New York.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Advancing the interests of private and political virtue": The stakes of the early American stage
Chapter 1: "The Imitation of Life": How Men Act
Chapter 2: American Actors/Acting American
Chapter 3: "O patriotism!/ Thou wond'rous principle of god-like action!": The Changing Meanings of the Revolution
Chapter 4: Love and Death: Staging Indigenous Masculinity
Chapter 5: Tyrants, Republicans, and Rebels: Performing Roman Masculinities
Epilogue: From Sons of Liberty to Wage Slaves
Notes
Index
