Laboring to play - Info and Reading Options
home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920
By Melanie Dawson
"Laboring to play" was published by University of Alabama Press in 2005 - Tuscaloosa, it has 257 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Laboring to play” Metadata:
- Title: Laboring to play
- Author: Melanie Dawson
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 257
- Publisher: University of Alabama Press
- Publish Date: 2005
- Publish Location: Tuscaloosa
“Laboring to play” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ History - Social life and customs - Recreation - Leisure - Middle class - SPORTS & RECREATION - General - Manners and customs - Unterhaltung - Mittelstand - Middle class, united states - United states, social life and customs
- Places: United States
- Time: 19th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: x, 257 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL20653027M - OL13187557W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 56419632
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2004019086
- ISBN-10: 0817314490
- All ISBNs: 0817314490
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"Laboring to play" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play
- 2- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth
- 3- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play
- 4- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment
- 5- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation
- 6- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide
- 7- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories.
"Laboring to play" Description:
The Open Library:
"Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, periodicals and newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, this book interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET.
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