A Vocabulary of Ethnic Perception
Content Analysis of the American Stage Irishman, 1820–1860
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8088366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale T Knobel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-71 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8758 • E-ISSN: 1469-5154 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021875800005107 |
| OpenAlex | W2129216330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
The Americans,” observed a European expatriate in 1837, “do not laugh at honest bluntness, or good-natured simplicity.... If Jonathan is to laugh, he must have a point given him, or, in other words, he must laugh to some purpose.” To Vienna-born Francis Grund, contemporary comic melodrama and its first cousin minstrelsy demonstrated beyond all doubt that his adoptive countrymen were decidedly “fond of laughing at the expense of their neighbors.” “English, French, Dutch, and German,” he noted, “are in turn made to suffer the stings of American wit.... The Irish, of late, has [sic] become very popular.” Grund's commentary reflected both the frequency with which ethnic characters of all sorts were portrayed upon the mid-nineteenth century American stage and, in particular, the emerging public taste for the stage Irishman. A tourists' guidebook to New York City published in 1850 pointed out that six of its seven principal theaters had been turned over to the “burlesque and broad fun” of melodrama and minstrelsy and to Irish character pieces especially. Twice during the 1830s, the British actor Tyrone Power conducted triumphal tours of the United States by relying upon a repertoire of Irish parts
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Burlesque · Character (mathematics · Comics · Cousin · Ethnic group · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Menagerie · Period (music · Power (physics · Sociology · Taste · Anthropology · Irish and British Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History · History · Philosophy
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The regional bibliography of Irish America, 1800–1930
The texted and textured construction of Irish identity in the theatrical world of Charleston, South Carolina
Two exponents of observational comedy and the stage Irishman in nineteenth-century Irish theatre
The historiography of the American Irish
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2024 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |