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Tables of Contents for The Evangelist and the Impresario
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
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Preface and Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
Piety, Pleasure, and the Public Sphere: Cultural Politics and the Problem of Realism
1
28
Part I Transatlantic Trajectories: Learning Cultural Hierarchy in an Age of Empire
``A Celtic Pilgrimage'': Culture, Class, and Evangelism in Alexander Irvine's Global Apprenticeship
29
42
``We Gave Them Realism'': Sylvester Poli's Theatrical World
71
40
Part II Class Conflict and the Meaning of Culture: Negotiating Hierarchy in New Haven
``The Tithe to Moloch'': Religion and the Cultural Politics of Class
111
27
``Social Evangelism, Its Dangers and Difficulties'': Pastor Irvine and the Public Sphere
138
41
``Mr. Poli Is the Big Chief!'': The Theatrical Manager, His Audiences, and the Vaudeville Industry
179
38
Part III Hierarchy into Autonomy: Narrating Culture for a New Century
Making Working-Class Narrative ``From the Bottom Up'': Alexander Irvine, the Evolutionary Vernacular, and the Socialist Bildungsroman
217
42
From The Magyar to My Lady of the Chimmey Corner: Weaving Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Working-Class Identity
259
39
To ``Change the Face of Civilization'': Religion, Popular Theater, and the Politics of Culture
298
53
Appendixes: Vaudeville Acts at Poli's New Haven Theaters, 1894--1913
A. Part I, 1894--1899
341
3
B. Part II, 1902--1907
344
3
C. Part III, 1908--1913
347
4
Abbreviations Used in Notes
351
2
Notes
353
49
Bibliographical Essay
402
19
Index
421