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Staging Family : Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses /
"Examing the careers and lives of more than fifty nineteenth-century American actresses, Staging Family explores the interplay of culture, labor, and family in the advancement of mid-1800s social and political change"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, Nebraska :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the axe and the faint
- Opportunity or necessity?
- Trials and vicissitudes
- Domesticating mobility and nationalizing transnationalism
- Child actresses : private family, public persona, and national identity
- Embodying America : race and class
- Reinventing the private family : children and siblings
- Acting couples versus acting coupled
- Domestic differences
- Managing motherhood
- Later life and legacies.