Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918

This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.

List of contents

One Nation Divided: Varieties of Dramatic Experience Cultures of Social Distance and Difference Women as American Citizens Cultural Displacement Discontented Citizens

About the author

SUSAN HARRIS SMITH is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Summary

This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.

Report

"Future scholars will be glad to have this study of a period of American drama that has until now been somewhat neglected. . .Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - CHOICE

Product details

• Authors: Susan Harris Smith, Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, Susan Harris (University of Pittsburgh) Smith, Susan Harris (University of Pittsburgh) Har Smith
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349537716
• ISBN: 978-1-349-53771-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History; Palgrave Studies in Theatre an; Palgrave Studies in Theatre an; Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, Theatre Studies, Historiography, Literature: history & criticism, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Historiography and Method, Theater—History, Theatre History, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, United States—History, US History, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature