Acts of Manhood : The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865
by
K. Kippola
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230340458
ISBN-13
9780230340459
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 2012
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
440 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 22.30 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Theatre studiesTheatre studiesGender studies: men and boysGender studies: men
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Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.
Through his study of American masculinity, Kippola constructs a theatrical history inextricably linked to the dynamic social, political, and cultural changes of the nineteenth-century American stage. The shift from the passionate muscularity of Edwin Forrest to the intellectual restraint of Edwin Booth was not a linear journey toward national refinement; but rather, a multitude of masculinities simultaneously fighting for dominance and recognition. Actors and audiences mutually constructed male ideals unique to each splintered group, while simultaneously seeking national identity and communal belonging. Kippola integrates dramas, manly rhetoric, advice literature, and masculine performances on political and theatrical stages to trace fragmenting and competing masculine identities in antebellum America.
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