Moving Diorama In Play: William Dunlap's Comedy A Trip To Niagara (1828)

Synopsis

Introduction : Dunlap's Comedy -- Trip's Contemporaneity And Context -- The Play's Anglo-american Dynamic -- Trip As Bonding -- Race And Racism -- Trip On Stage -- The Coupling Of Scenography And Script -- The Text And Its Author -- William Dunlap (1766-1839) -- Dunlap The Moralist - And Magician -- Puffs For Dunlap's Characters And The Spirit Of Comedy ; Part I. The Bowery And Its Moving Diorama : The Second Bowery And Its Third Tier -- Charles Gilfert, Impresario -- Sources Of The Bowery's Eidophusicon, Or Moving Diorama -- Two 'orama Relatives -- The Multivalency Of The Hudson Moving Diorama -- Rival Moving Panoramas -- Postludes ; Part Ii. Spectacle And Comedy : The Rest Of The Scenery -- Interplay Of Spectacle And Comedy -- Performance Annals ; Part Iii. Dunlap And His Text: Abiographical Interlude -- A Poor Commodity -- The Father Of An Only Child -- Sources And Allusions In A Trip To Niagara -- Race And Racism In A Trip To Niagara -- Jonathan (and John Bull) In Yankeedom -- Epilogue. Dorothy B. Richardson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.