The American circus / Susan Weber, Kenneth L. Ames, and Matthew Wittmann, editors.
Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.
2012
GV1803 .A44 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The American circus / Susan Weber, Kenneth L. Ames, and Matthew Wittmann, editors.
ISBN 9780300185393 hardcover
0300185391 hardcover
Published New York : Bard Graduate Center : Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2012]
Language English
Description 459 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Call Number GV1803 .A44 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.30973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-448) and index.
Added Author Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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
Shelburne 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.

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