Laboring to Play : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0817314490
ISBN-13
9780817314491
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Imprint
The University of Alabama Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 27th, 2008
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
588 grams
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyCultural studiesSocial classes
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The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in US culture. ""Laboring to Play"" deals with subjects as wide ranging as social performances, social history (etiquette and gentility), literary history, representations of childhood, and the history of the book.
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