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Author Miller, Renata Kobetts, author.

Title The Victorian actress in the novel and on the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : EUP, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Contents An actress's tears: authenticity and the reassertion of social class -- The actress at home: domesticity, respectability and the disruption of class hierarchies -- The actress and her audience: performance, authorship and the exceptional woman in George Eliot -- Novelistic naturalism: 'the ideal mother cannot be the great artist' -- From playing parts to rewriting roles: actresses and the political stage
Summary This book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 20, 2020)
Subject Actresses -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Actresses in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Actresses
Actresses in literature
English literature
Women in the theater
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474439510
1474439519
9781474439527
1474439527