Contents
Foreword by Laurence Senelick
Introduction. The Destiny of a Nation, by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate
1. Rural Life with Urban Strife: The Evolution of Rural Drama in the Late Nineteenth Century by Amy Arbogast
2. Marching Off-Beat and On-Screen: New York City's Reform Movements and Charles Hale Hoyt's A Milk White Flag by Hillary Miller
3. "Wasn't America Crowded Enough Wid Out You Forrinners?": Staging Immigration, Assimilation, and Social Mobility in the Rooseveltian Nation by J. Chris Westgate
4. Systematic Vaudeville and Systematic Farce: The Unlikely Team of Taylor and Schmidt by Michael Schwartz
5. Immigrant Civic Performances and Historical Pageantry: Columbus Day in Chicago, 1892–1913 by Megan E. Geigner
6. "Art in Democracy" and the Early Houses of the Cleveland Play House by Les Hunter
7. New Women and Girls of Today in Motion: The "Strenuous Clasping" of Tango Teas by Ariel Nereson
8. Keaton, Class, and Social Control: Comic Vaudeville in the Progressive Era by Rick DesRochers
9. Celebrating Childhood on the Vaudeville Stage by Gillian Arrighi
10. Monstrosity or Medical Miracle?: Incubator Baby Sideshows and the Contradictions of the Progressive Era by Susan Kattwinkel
11. The Progressive Era's Doctor-Doper Dyad by Max Shulman
Conclusion. Pitfalls, Methods, and Legacies by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index