AuthorDavis, Janet M
TitleThe circus age [electronic resource] : culture & society under the American big top / Janet M. Davis
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
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Descript xviii, 329 p. : ill

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Circus -- Social aspects -- United States
  2. Circus -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  3. Electronic books.