Costuming the Audience: Gentility, Consumption, and the Lady's Theatre Hat in Gilded Age America.

The article discusses gentility and consumption during the Gilded Age in America. It mentions that industrialization, corporatization, urbanization, and a revolution in transportation transformed the country during the Gilded Age. It also reveals that idealized codes of respectable behavior were for...

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Publicado en:Theatre Symposium Vol. 26; pp. 88 - 100
Autor principal: Lowe, Leah
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Alabama Press 2018
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Sumario:The article discusses gentility and consumption during the Gilded Age in America. It mentions that industrialization, corporatization, urbanization, and a revolution in transportation transformed the country during the Gilded Age. It also reveals that idealized codes of respectable behavior were formalized and propagated through inexpensive conduct manuals.