The Portable Theater: American Literature & the Nineteenth-century StageJHU Press, 1999 - 271 էջ In The Portable Theater, Alan Ackerman investigates the crucial importance of theater in the works of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James. Whether as drama critics, playwrights, amateur actors, or simply as avid theater goers, each of these authors thought deeply about the theater and represented it in literature. |
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SETTING THE STAGE | 1 |
Walt Whitman and American Theater | 42 |
ANOTHER VERSION | 89 |
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY | 136 |
THE THEATER OF PRIVATE LIFE | 155 |
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