Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 /

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<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Stage Mothers expands the discussion of eighteenth-century women's social and dramatic roles by demonstrating the complicated, contradictory, and celebratory faces of maternity on stage and on the page. This collection examines and ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Engel, Laura (Editor ), McGirr, Elaine M., 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]
Colección:Transits (Bucknell University)
Temas:
1700-1899
Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Actresses > Great Britain > Biography.
Working mothers > Great Britain > Biography.
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
English drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Women authors > History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Femmes au théâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Femmes au théâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Actrices > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Mères au travail > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Théâtre anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mères dans la littérature.
Maternité dans la littérature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Actresses
English drama
English drama > Women authors
Motherhood in literature
Mothers in literature
Women in the theater
Working mothers
Great Britain
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Elaine M. McGirr and Laura Engel
  • Actresses, motherhood, and the profession of the stage. The divided heart of the actress: late eighteenth-century actresses and the "cult of maternity" / Helen E.M. Brooks
  • The inconvenience of the female condition: Anne Oldfield's pregnancies / J.D. Phillipson
  • "Inimitable sensibility": Susannah Cibber's performance of maternity / Elaine M. McGirr
  • Working mothers on the romantic stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson / Ellen Malenas Ledoux
  • Representations of mothers on the stage and the page. Rebels for love: maternity, absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's Mustapha / Laura R. Rosenthal
  • Rowe's The ambitious stepmother: motherhood and the politics of the blended family / Marilyn Francus
  • Staged virtue: Anastasia Robinson as ideal mother in two operas of the 1720 / Kathryn Lowerre
  • Maternal duties and filial malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the problems of theatrical inheritance / Emrys Jones
  • My son, my lover: Gothic contagion and maternal sexuality in the mysterious mother / Jade Higa
  • Actresses and their children: Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the domestic drama of mother-son relations / Judith Hawley
  • Mommy diva: the divided loyalities of Sarah Siddons / Laura Engel
  • The Gerbini letters: or, a tale of two mothers / Gilli Bush-Bailey.

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