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
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher