{"product_id":"from-san-francisco-eastward-carolyn-grattan-eichin-9781647792688","title":"From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Carolyn Grattan Eichin's \u003ci\u003eFrom San Francisco Eastward\u003c\/i\u003e explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation's most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West's hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using the vagaries of the West's notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. \u003ci\u003eFrom San Francisco Eastwar\u003c\/i\u003ed is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Grattan Eichin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647792681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647792688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nevada Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Carolyn Grattan Eichin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443054751999,"sku":"9781647792688","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23001f10-02d7-4b1a-b2f6-50ae7889edcd.jpg?v=1777201548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-san-francisco-eastward-carolyn-grattan-eichin-9781647792688","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}