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9780521563840

American Drama : The Bastard Art

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521563840

  • ISBN10:

    0521563844

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-01-28
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Susan Harris Smith here looks at the many often conflicting cultural and academic reasons for the neglect and dismissal of American drama as a legitimate literary form. Covering a wide range of topics - theatrical performance, the rise of nationalist feeling, the creation of academic disciplines, and the development of sociology - Smith's study is a contentious and revisionist historical inquiry into the troubled cultural and canonical status of American drama, both as a literary genre and as a mirror of American society.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the problem of American drama
2. Generic hegemony: the exclusion of American drama
3. No corner in her own house: what is American about American drama?
4. Did she jump or was she pushed? American drama in the university curriculum
5. Caught in the close embrace: sociology and realism
6. Conclusion: beyond hegemony and canonicity.

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