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Pioneer performances

Rebhorn, Matthew.

Pioneer performances staging the frontier / [electronic resource] : Matthew Rebhorn. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume offers a synoptic treatment of the history of American frontier performance ranging from Jacksonian America to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. It reconceives how the frontier was, and still is, defined in performance, and what it means for that frontier to be called 'American'.

9780199932559 (ebook) : No price


Theater--History--United States--19th century.
American drama--History and criticism.--19th century
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.


West (U.S.)--In literature.

PN2245 / .R49 2012

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