Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in AmericaNYU Press, 1997 - 200 sidor Dioramas and panoramas, freaks and magicians, waxworks and menageries, obscure relics and stuffed animals--a dazzling assortment of curiosities attracted the gaze of the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum. This distinctly American phenomenon was unprecedented in both the diversity of its amusements and in its democratic appeal, with audiences traversing the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and class. Andrea Stulman Dennett's Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins of history. |
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Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America Andrea Stulman Dennett Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1997 |
Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America Andrea Stulman Dennett Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1997 |
Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America Andrea Stulman Dennett Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1997 |