TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moeschen,Sheila C.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Acts of conspicuous compassion: performance culture and American charity practices 
SN  - 9780472029273
AV  - PN2226 .M56 2013
U1  - 792.0973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - People with disabilities in literature
KW  - Charity in literature
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Dramatizing distress: sentimental culture, melodrama, and nineteenth-century reform for the deaf/dumb and blind -- Spectacular benevolence: theatricalizing the war on polio with the national foundation for infantile paralysis (NFIP), 1934-1945 -- Wheelchairs and one-liners: televising need in the charity telethon -- Acts of conspicuous compassion: charity in the reality TV era: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472029273/
ER  -