Melodrama and the Myth of America |
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| Author:
| Mason, Jeffrey D. |
| Series title: | Drama and Performance Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-33686-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $31.95 |
Book Description:
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Looks at five popular nineteenth-century melodramas that took as their subjects important issues in American life: Metamora and the Indian Question, The Drunkard and the temperance movement, Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery, My Partner and the American West, and Shenandoah and the Civil War.
Looks at five popular nineteenth-century melodramas that took as their subjects important issues in American life: Metamora and the Indian Question, The Drunkard and the temperance movement, Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery, My Partner and the American West, and Shenandoah and the Civil War.