Cultivating National Identity Through Performance: American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment

As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.

Author: N. Stubbs
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/20/2013
Pages: 177
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781349460021

About the Author
Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Laguardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.