- Title
- The circus and modernity: a commitment to 'the newer' and 'the newest'
- Creator
- Arrighi, Gillian
- Relation
- The Routledge Circus Studies Reader p. 386-402
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor and Francis
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This chapter accepts that the circus - or, to be more precise, the large circuses - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflected a number of the ideas associated with modernity. Beyond functioning as a conduit for ideas about what it was to be modern, the demonstration of modernity by these entertainment organizations was one the reasons for their popularity. But it is proposed here that this modernity was completely international, encompassing Australia, where new technology and the latest trends in entertainment practices were enthusiastically embraced by leading entrepreneurs.
- Subject
- entertainment; circus performers; tehnological innovations; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1329387
- Identifier
- uon:26147
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138125353
- Language
- eng
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