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Robert Allens compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of British Blondes brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular successand the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even womens rights campaigners.Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the normal world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of proper feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer lost her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body.Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused.

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title Horrible Prettiness Burlesque and American Culture Cultural - photo 1

title:Horrible Prettiness : Burlesque and American Culture Cultural Studies of the United States
author:Allen, Robert Clyde.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807819603
print isbn13:9780807819609
ebook isbn13:9780807860083
language:English
subjectBurlesque (Theater)--United States--History, Popular culture--United States--History.
publication date:1991
lcc:PN1948.U6A45 1991eb
ddc:792.7/0973
subject:Burlesque (Theater)--United States--History, Popular culture--United States--History.
Horrible Prettiness
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Cultural Studies of
the United States
Alan Trachtenberg
editor
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Horrible Prettiness
Burlesque And American Culture
Robert C. Allen
The University of North Carolina PressChapel Hill and London Page - photo 2
The University of North Carolina PressPicture 3Chapel Hill and London
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The publication of this work was made possible in part through a grantfrom the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency whose mission is to award grants to support education, scholarship, media programming, libraries, and museums, in order to bring the results of cultural activities to a broad, general public.
1991 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950
Horrible prettiness: burlesque and American culture/Robert C. Allen.
p. cm. (Cultural studies of the United States)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-1960-3 (alk. paper)ISBN 0-8078-4316-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Burlesque (Theater)United StatesHistory. 2. United States
Popular culture19th century. 3. United StatesPopular culture
20th century. I. Title. II. Series.
PN1948.u6A45 1991
792.7'0973dc2oPicture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 790-48608
Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12Picture 13CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence
and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines
for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents
Foreword
by Alan Trachtenberg
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Chapter One
A Chronicle of Lydia Thompson's First Season in America
1
Chapter Two
The Intelligibility of Burlesque
23
Chapter Three
The Historical Contexts of Burlesque I: The Transformation of American Theater
43
Chapter Four
The Historical Contexts of Burlesque II: Women on the Stage
79
Chapter Five
Ixion Revisited
119
Chapter Six
The Institutionalization of Burlesque
157
Chapter Seven
Burlesque at Century's End
195
Chapter Eight
Burlesque in the Twentieth Century
241
Notes
291
Bibliography
327
Index
345

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Illustrations
The playbill for Ixion
4
Lydia Thompson as Ixion
6
Pauline Markham, "the most beautifully formed woman who had ever appeared on the stage"
9
Interior of the Bowery Theater, 1856
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