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Cultivating National Identity Through Performance: American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment

Cultivating National Identity Through Performance: American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

19th Century United States HistoryTheater HistoryPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $54.99

ISBN10: 1137326867
ISBN13: 9781137326867
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 20 2013
Pages: 177
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.

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