TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber,Susan
AU  - Ames,Kenneth L.
AU  - Wittman,Matthew W.
TI  - The American circus
SN  - 9780300185393 (hbk)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, New Haven, London
PB  - Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Yale University Press
KW  - Circus
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-448) and index; About the contributors -- Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames -- The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis -- The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann -- The American circus in Victorian Britain / Brenda Assael -- American circus posters / Paul Stirton -- Shelbourne Museum's Colchester posters and circus advertising / Kory W. Rogers -- The circus parade / Gregory J. Renoff -- Circus music in America / Leon Botstein -- The American circus tent / Fred Dahlinger, Jr. -- Elephants and the American circus / Susan Nance -- Horses and cat acts in the early American circus / Brett Mizelle -- Performed identities as circus illusions / Peter Tait -- The Americanization of the circus clown / Rodney Huey -- The American circus spectacle / Jennifer Lemmer Posey -- The circus in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Ellen Butler Donovan -- Circus toys in the gilded age / Eugene W. Metcalf -- The WPA circus in New York / Susan Weber -- Disability and the circus / Rachel Adams -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits
ER  -