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E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture
Bluford Adams
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Description for E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: AN; ASZW; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective.
Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century, and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence us today.
Beginning with a discussion of Barnum’s early shows, Adams demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Barnum’s increasingly “respectable” aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in ... Read moreAdams relates the rise of Barnum to the emergence of a new U.S. society, one riven by conflicts over slavery, feminism, immigration, and capitalism. He documents Barnum’s efforts to negotiate those conflicts by steadily remaking his amusements and his public image. E Pluribus Barnum examines Barnum’s shifting political allegiances for what they tell us about American culture at the time, examines the audiences he created, and considers his career as a crucial moment in the ongoing struggle over the politics of U.S. commercial entertainments. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816626311
SKU
V9780816626311
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About Bluford Adams
Bluford Adams is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.
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