Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-448) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The American circus

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

772715734

Responsibility statement

Susan Weber, Kenneth L. Ames, and Matthew Wittmann, editors

Table Of Contents

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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