E pluribus Barnum : the great showman and the making of U.S. popular culture

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    • Adams, Bluford

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E pluribus Barnum : the great showman and the making of U.S. popular culture

Bluford Adams

University of Minnesota Press, c1997

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-240) and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780816626304

内容説明

Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891. This study investigates the influence he had on American popular culture of the 19th century and looks at how he continues to have an influence today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, the author demonstrates the dynamic interplay between the showman's increasingly "respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish nightingale" Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's American museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theatre (which included a play of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are examined in the context of debates over slavery and temperance. The later circuses are discussed in terms of their racial exhibitions and their use, through pageantry, of orientalism and other racial spectacles. Adams creates a portrait of a nation seeking to establish an identity, and clarifies the connections between that search and Barnum's response to and creation of discussions of such central issues as class, race, ethnicity, and gender.

目次

  • "E. Pluribus Barnum"
  • "All things to all people" - P. T. Barnum in American culture
  • The Jenny Lind tour - "Where's Barnum?"
  • Barnum's long arms - The American museum
  • Barnum's lecture room - Excavating the politics of the moral drama
  • "A stupendous mirror of departed empires" - The Barnum hippodromes and circuses
  • Conclusion - "A transient disease": Barnumism at the world's Columbian exposition.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780816626311

内容説明

Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891. This study investigates the influence he had on American popular culture of the 19th century and looks at how he continues to have an influence today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, the author demonstrates the dynamic interplay between the showman's increasingly "respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish nightingale" Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's American museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theatre (which included a play of "Uncle Tom's Cabin") are examined in the context of debates over slavery and temperance. The later circuses are discussed in terms of their racial exhibitions and their use, through pageantry, of orientalism and other racial spectacles. Adams creates a portrait of a nation seeking to establish an identity, and clarifies the connections between that search and Barnum's response to and creation of discussions of such central issues as class, race, ethnicity, and gender.

目次

  • "E. Pluribus Barnum"
  • "All things to all people" - P. T. Barnum in American culture
  • The Jenny Lind tour - "Where's Barnum?"
  • Barnum's long arms - The American museum
  • Barnum's lecture room - Excavating the politics of the moral drama
  • "A stupendous mirror of departed empires" - The Barnum hippodromes and circuses
  • Conclusion - "A transient disease": Barnumism at the world's Columbian exposition.

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