The circus age culture & society under the American big top /

Main Author: Davis, Janet M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10202615
Table of Contents:
  • 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.