Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1. The Body as/in/at the Spectacle 13 Chapter 2. The Delirium Tremens: Spectacular Insanity in The Drunkard 46 Chapter 3. The Fugitive Slave: Eliza’s Flight in Uncle Tom’s Cabin 86 Chapter 4. The Railroad Rescue: Suffrage and Citizenship in Under the Gaslight 118 Afterword:Our Sensations, Our Heroes, Our Freaks 155 Notes 169 Bibliography 213 Index 235 ...