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Apr 19, 2024
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RHET 161 - 19th-Century Popular CultureSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course introduces students to the social, political, and aesthetic issues raised in popular entertainment venues in the United States in the 19th-century. We will investigate the creation and reception of such 19th- century popular cultural activities as melodramatic theater, circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville-variety shows, minstrel shows, tableau vivants, museums, broadsides, and political cartoons. These leisure entertainments were venues wherein the social issues of everyday life – slavery, racism, class divisions, labor struggles, gender inequities, etc. – were performed and often parodied. In this course we will investigate ways these cultural practices operated in the everyday life of audiences and participants so as to reproduce and/or struggle against existing structures of power.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.
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