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Spectacular men : race, gender, and nation on the early American stage
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- Creator
- Sarah E. Chinn
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xi, 249 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190653675, 0190653671, 9780190653682
- OCLC
- ocn961213772
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-240) and index.
- Introduction: "advancing the interests of private and political virtue": the stakes of the early American stage -- "The imitation of life": how men act -- American actors/acting American -- "O patriotism!/ thou wond'rous principle of God-like action!": the changing meanings of the Revolution -- Love and death: staging indigenous masculinity -- Tyrants, republicans, and rebels: performing Roman masculinities -- Epilogue: from sons of liberty to wage slaves