The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a
cultural studies perspective.
Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the
eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know
it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence
Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century,
and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence
us today.
Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, Adams
demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Barnum's increasingly
"respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active
cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his
discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish Nightingale"
Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and
class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's
American Museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theater are
examined, as well as the later circuses.
Adams relates the rise of Barnum to the emergence of a new U.S.
society, one riven by conflicts over slavery, feminism,
immigration, and capitalism, and considers his career as a crucial
moment in the on-going struggle over the politics of U.S.
commercial entertainments.
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