The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances ...
America at the last fin de siecle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialisation was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. "The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader" is a wide-ranging anthology of ...
America at the last fin de siecle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialisation was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. "The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader" is a wide-ranging anthology of ...
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Publisher: University Of Alabama Press
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Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-Of-The-Century New York
