Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916

Westgate, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-10-16

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349471669

DOI: 10.1057/9781137357687

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 278