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Sweet Canadian girls abroad : a transnational history of stage and screen actresses /
"By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class cultu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- SWEET CANADIAN GIRLS ABROAD
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Actresses? The Personal and the Professional
- CHAPTER One Becoming an Actress: Childhood, Family, and the Stage
- CHAPTER TWO Working Lives
- CHAPTER THREE The Plays
- CHAPTER FOUR Celebrity
- CHAPTER FIVE Citizenship
- CHAPTER SIX The Interwar Decades: Retaining Old Patterns, Facing New Challenges
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern
- and Transnational
- Sweet Canadian Girl Onstage in London ...and New York ... and Sydney ... and Auckland
- Epilogue
- Dramatis Personae
- Figures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index