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Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage

Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916
By:J. Westgate
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137359681
eText ISBN:9781137357687
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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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.