 |
GetTextbooks.co.uk
Compare Prices & Save up to 90% |
|
|
|
| Login | Sign up | My Wish List |
 | | Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City by Peter Bailey ISBN-10: 9780521574174 ISBN-10: 0-521-57417-X ISBN-13: 9780521574174 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57417-4 Hardcover 1998-11-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
Editorials | ||
Product Description Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies. | ||
Book Description Lively, innovative, well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry which get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies. | ||
Reviews | ||
Peter Bailey's fiasco Book of semi-historical signifance. Normal everyday reader will find book boring and "long" winded. Good primary sources but not a book with a "bite." No new information given to change this person's mind about the Victorian Era in England. Bailey's thesis is lost in the mire of words. | ||