| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 |
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
<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 extends recent debates in women's history, theater history, and eighteenth-century literature and drama. <br /> |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Working mothers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Mothers in literature.
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Motherhood in literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Actresses
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English drama
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English drama -- Women authors
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Motherhood in literature
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Mothers in literature
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Women in the theater
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Working mothers
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Engel, Laura, editor.
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McGirr, Elaine M., 1972- editor.
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| LC no. |
2014033369 |
| ISBN |
9781611486049 |
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1611486041 |
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1611486033 |
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9781611486032 |
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