The American circus Susan Weber, Kenneth L. Ames, Matthew Wittmann, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weber, Susan, 1954- editor of compilation.

Ames, Kenneth L., editor of compilation.

Wittmann, Matthew, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Circus--United States.

Circus.

Physical Description:

459 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2012.

Contents:

About the contributors

Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames

The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis

The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann

The American circus in Victorian Britain / Brenda Assael

American circus posters / Paul Stirton

Shelbourne Museum's Colchester posters and circus advertising / Kory W. Rogers

The circus parade / Gregory J. Renoff

Circus music in America / Leon Botstein

The American circus tent / Fred Dahlinger, Jr.

Elephants and the American circus / Susan Nance

Horses and cat acts in the early American circus / Brett Mizelle

Performed identities as circus illusions / Peter Tait

The Americanization of the circus clown / Rodney Huey

The American circus spectacle / Jennifer Lemmer Posey

The circus in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Ellen Butler Donovan

Circus toys in the gilded age / Eugene W. Metcalf

The WPA circus in New York / Susan Weber

Disability and the circus / Rachel Adams

Bibliography

Index

Photo credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-448) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP cited source: Engraving, "Mr. Ricketts, The Equestrian Hero" (DAMS 121), call number Bb 96 R424 (p. 27).

ISBN:

9780300185393

0300185391

OCLC:

772715734