Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918

by Smith, Susan Harris

• ISBN13: 9781403977656
• ISBN10: 1403977658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Between 1890 and 1918, over 125 American, English, Irish and AngloIndian plays by 70 dramatists were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer. Ranging from elite publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and Scribner's to more mid-level venues such as McClure's and Everybody's Magazine to progressive magazines such as Arena and Forum , the plays dramatized a wide range of American concerns, including anxieties about " race suicide," immigration, " white slavery," the New Woman, class distinctions, global warfare, and the creation of a unique national identity. These plays show Americans to have been " dis/contented" citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation.

Author Biography

Susan Harris Smith is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of American Drama: The Bastard Art (1997, 2006), Masks in Modern Drama (1984), and co-editor with Melanie Dawson of The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader (2000) as well as many articles on modern drama in scholarly journals.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Varieties of Dramatic Experience	p. 1
Cultures of Social Distance and Difference	p. 35
Women as American Citizens	p. 77
Cultural Displacement	p. 117
Dis/Contented Citizens	p. 149
Plays in Periodicals	p. 191
Works Cited	p. 197
Index	p. 213
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