The Soul of Pleasure : : Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment / / David Monod.
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasur...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Enter Sentimentality: The Origins of the Entertainment Revolution
- Chapter 2. Laugh and Grow Fat: Minstrelsy and Burlesque
- Chapter 3. Looking Through: Sentimental Aesthetics
- Chapter 4. The Democratization of Entertainment: The Concert Saloons
- Chapter 5. Any Dodge Is Fair to Raise a Good Sensation: The Danger and Promise of Sensationalism
- Chapter 6. Art with the Effervescence of Ginger Beer: The Creation of Vaudeville
- Chapter 7. Spectacle and Nostalgia on the Road: Traveling Shows
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index