Laboring to play : home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920 / Melanie Dawson.

"Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, periodicals and newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, this book interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged...

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Main Author: Dawson, Melanie, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
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