Spectacular Men

Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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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Utgivningsdatum2017-05-04
Mått236 x 155 x 27 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190653675

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Acknowledgments Introduction: "Advancing the interests of private and political virtue": The stakes of the early American stageChapter 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 RevolutionChapter 4: Love and Death: Staging Indigenous Masculinity Chapter 5: Tyrants, Republicans, and Rebels: Performing Roman MasculinitiesEpilogue: From Sons of Liberty to Wage Slaves Notes Index

Engagingly written, featuring a thorough but by no means overwhelming scholarly apparatus, and reflecting keen awareness of the paradoxes that would lead the "true blue Sons of Liberty" of the 1780s to see themselves as wage slaves by the 1840s, Chinn's book is a welcome entry into the field of early American theater studies. She ably tackles the contingent nature of the class, gender, and racial identities that underpinned so much of the early history of the American theater -- and of the United States itself.