The American circus / Susan Weber, Kenneth, L. Ames, Matthew Wittmann, editors.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300185393
- ISBN: 0300185391
- Physical Description: 459 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-448) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | About the contributors -- Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames -- The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis -- The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann -- The American circus in Victorian Britain / Brenda Assael -- American circus posters / Paul Stirton -- Shelbourne Museum's Colchester posters and circus advertising / Kory W. Rogers -- The circus parade / Gregory J. Renoff -- Circus music in America / Leon Botstein -- The American circus tent / Fred Dahlinger, Jr. -- Elephants and the American circus / Susan Nance -- Horses and cat acts in the early American circus / Brett Mizelle -- Performed identities as circus illusions / Peter Tait -- The Americanization of the circus clown / Rodney Huey -- The American circus spectacle / Jennifer Lemmer Posey -- The circus in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Ellen Butler Donovan -- Circus toys in the gilded age / Eugene W. Metcalf -- The WPA circus in New York / Susan Weber -- Disability and the circus / Rachel Adams -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits |
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Subject: | Circus > United States. |
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