Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. A Trip to Niagara as Theatre
Chapter 1: The Second Bowery and its Third Tier
Chapter 2: Charles Gilfert, Impresario
Chapter 3: Sources of The Bowery's "Eidophusicon, or Moving Diaroma"
Chapter 4: Two 'Orama Relatives
Chapter 5: The Multivalency of the Hudson Moving Diaroma
Chapter 6: Rival Moving Panoramas: A Chapter in American Stage History
Chapter 7: Postludes
Part II. The Spectacle and the Comedy Interplay
Chapter 8: The Rest of the Scenery
Chapter 9: The Partnership of Spectacle and Comedy
Chapter 10: Performance Annals
Part III: Dunlap and his Text
Chapter 11: A Biographical Interlude
Chapter 12: "A Poor Commodity"
Chapter 13: The Father of an Only Child
Chapter 14: Sources and Allusions in A Trip to Niagara
Chapter 15: Race and Racism in A Trip to Niagara
Chapter 16: John Bull-Jonathan in Yankeedom
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
