The Soul of Pleasure: Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment

by David Monod

Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural" it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501702386
• ISBN13: 9781501702389
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher