Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905
| By: | Jennifer Mooney |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137482648 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137476623 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined.