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Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
Hardback
Main Details
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Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Peter Bailey
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:272 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 157 |
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| Category/Genre | Drama |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521574174
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| Classifications | Dewey:792.094109034 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
13 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
8 October 1998 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies.
Reviews'... a pleasure to observe the dexterity with which Bailey handles his material.' Times Literary Supplement
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