"The purposes of
Laboring to Play are several: to give new and sustained attention to the parlor as an important site of social and cultural formation; to consider the ways in which home entertainment texts and practices helped shape an emerging middle-class identity in the United States; to chart the evolution of such texts and practices and thus also their changing effects on class formation; to extend existing scholarship on the middle class; to reexamine the inter-relationship of work and play in American culture; and to explore the roles of pleasure and game-playing in American identity. Highly effective are the detailed readings of the 'entertainment chronotope' in a number of important American literary texts, including Alcott's
Little Women, Wharton's
The House of Mirth, Lewis's
Main Street, Gilman's
Herland, and Cather's
My Ántonia."--William Gleason, author of
The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940.
Laboring to Play : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920,Melanie Dawson,University Alabama Press,0817314490,19th century,General,History,History: World,Leisure,Middle class,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Recreation,United States,United States - 19th Century,Social Science / Popular Culture
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