Author: Alan Louis Ackerman

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780801869112

In The Portable Theater, Alan Ackerman investigates the crucial importance of theater in the works of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James. Whether as drama critics, playwrights, amateur actors, or simply as avid theater goers, each of these authors thought deeply about the theater and represented it in literature.