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Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre,

Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 (2014)

By J Westgate

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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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Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publish Date: 10/16/2014
Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781349471669
ISBN-10: 1349471666
Language: English

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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.

About the Author

J. Chris Westgate is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton, USA.

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