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Pioneer performances : staging the frontier
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- Creator
- Matthew Rebhorn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199751303, 0199751307
- OCLC
- ocn722451355
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: manifest destinies: Buffalo Bill, Gowongo Mohawk, and the genealogy of American frontier performance -- Edwin Forrest's Redding up: elocution, theater, and the performance of the frontier -- The swamp aesthetic: James Kirke Paulding's frontiersman and the American melodrama of wonder -- The burnt-cork pioneer: T. D. Rice and minstrelsy's frontier history -- What is it?: the frontier, melodrama, and Bucicault's amalgamated drama -- The great divide: pioneer performances after the Civil War -- Afterword: Brokeback or bushwhacked--the legacies of pioneer performance