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Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 - Paperback

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Author:: J. Westgate
Publisher:: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date:: Oct 16, 2014
Number of pages:: 278 pages
Binding:: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10:: 1349471666
ISBN-13:: 9781349471669

Overview

Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.