Stunts of Late Nineteenth-Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness - Paperback

by Kirstin Smith (Author)

Stunts of Late Nineteenth Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport, and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human life.

Author Biography

Kirstin Smith is lecturer in Drama at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her work has appeared in TDR and Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film , and her research examines the intersection of performance, identity and economy.