An edition of Laboring to play
(2005)
Laboring to play
home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920
by Melanie Dawson
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Laboring to play: home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920
2005, University of Alabama Press
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0817314490 9780817314491
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Table of Contents
Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play
Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth
The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play
Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment
Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation
Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide
Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index.
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