The soul of pleasure :: sentiment and sensation in nineteenth-century American mass entertainment /

Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as this work demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not 'natural': it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The volume offers a n...

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1. Verfasser: Monod, David, 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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Zusammenfassung:Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as this work demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not 'natural': it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The volume offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. It focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501703997
1501703994
1501703986
9781501703980

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