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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830
- Title
- Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
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- Description
- xv, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
- Uniform Title
- Transits (Bucknell University)
- Subject
- 1700 - 1899
- Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Actresses > Great Britain > Biography
- Working mothers > Great Britain > Biography
- English drama > 18th century > History and criticism
- English drama > 19th century > History and criticism
- English drama > Women authors > History and criticism
- Mothers in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Actresses
- English drama
- English drama > Women authors
- Women in the theater
- Working mothers
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- NCOM 15-2919
- ISBN
- 9781611486032
- 1611486033
- 9781611486049 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014033369
- OCLC
- 883647341
- Title
- Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850Transits (Bucknell University)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700 - 1899
- Added Author
- Engel, Laura, editor.McGirr, Elaine M., 1972- editor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOM 15-2919