TY - BOOK AU - Hughes,Amy ED - Project Muse. TI - Spectacles of reform: theater and activism in nineteenth-century America SN - 9780472028894 AV - PN2256 .H86 2012 U1 - 792.0973/09034 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - the University of Michigan Press KW - Spectacular, The KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Spectacular, The, in literature KW - American drama KW - History and criticism KW - Theater and society KW - United States KW - Theater KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The body as/in/at the spectacle -- The delirium tremens: spectacular insanity in The drunkard -- The fugitive slave: Eliza's flight in Uncle Tom's cabin -- The railroad rescue: suffrage and citizenship in Under the gaslight -- Afterword: our sensations, our heroes, our freaks UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472028894/ ER -