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Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
John W. Frick
Cambridge University Press, 2003
270 pages 19 half-tones
ISBN:0521817781 | ISBN13:9780521817783
Contents
List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A complex causality of
neglect; 1. ‘He drank from the poisoned cup’: temperance reform in
nineteenth-century America; 2. ‘Nine-tenths of all kindness …’:
literature, the theatre, and the spirit of reform; 3. ‘Every odium
within one word’: early American temperance drama and British
prototypes; 4. Reform comes to Broadway: temperance on America’s
mainstream stages; 5. ‘In the halls’: Temperance entertainments
following the Civil War; 6. Epilogue: ‘Theatrical ‘Dry Rot’?’: or what
price the anti-saloon league?; Appendix: nineteenth-century temperance
plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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