Looks at five popular nineteenth-century melodramas that took as their subjects important issues in American life: Metamora and the Indian Question, The Drunkard and the temperance movement, Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery, My Partner and the American West, and Shenandoah and the Civil War.
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Looks at five popular nineteenth-century melodramas that took as their subjects important issues in American life: Metamora and the Indian Question, The Drunkard and the temperance movement, Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery, My Partner and the American West, and Shenandoah and the Civil War.
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