Author | Davis, Janet M |
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Title | The circus age [electronic resource] : culture & society under the American big top / Janet M. Davis |
Imprint | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=99928 |
Descript | xviii, 329 p. : ill |
Circus day -- The circus as a historical and cultural process -- Spectacular labor -- Respectable female nudity -- From the king of beasts to clowns in drag -- Instruct the minds of all classes -- Legacies : from Las Vegas to the bridges of Madison County