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Exhibiting the Victorians: Melodrama and Modernity in Post Civil War American Show Prints

Tener, John V
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4918-319X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149259715322474

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Theatre.
This is a study of theatrical advertising prints and the culture that produced them. The prints in question were first published as a catalog of woodcuts in facsimile by the Ledger Job Printing Office of Philadelphia in 1869, and distributed among theatrical agents on speculation. Their existence, subject matter, mode of production, and the period in which they were produced is significant. The shifts underway in the theatrical paradigm were emblematic of shifts affecting society at large. The railroad was aggressively transforming the structure of the American Theatre; touring productions were displacing and destabilizing the stock company system; and the stage was ceding its space to the spectacle-thrill moments of sensation melodrama. Similar changes were occurring throughout society for the benefit of a new commerce. Just as country life was becoming a relic of the past, so too were the remnants of pre-industrial business practices. The Ledger catalog stands at a critical juncture in this transformation.
Beth Kattelman, PhD (Committee Chair)
211 p.
Theater; Theater History; Theater Studies
theatre; drama; stage; melodrama; spectacle; theatrical; paratext; nineteenth-century; woodcut; modernity; Victorian society; nineteenth-century popular culture

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  • Tener, J. V. (2017). Exhibiting the Victorians: Melodrama and Modernity in Post Civil War American Show Prints [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149259715322474

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tener, John. Exhibiting the Victorians: Melodrama and Modernity in Post Civil War American Show Prints . 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149259715322474.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tener, John. "Exhibiting the Victorians: Melodrama and Modernity in Post Civil War American Show Prints ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149259715322474

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