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1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women in the theater. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Actresses. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Working mothers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Working mothers. |
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English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English drama. |
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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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English drama -- Women authors. |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Engel, Laura, editor.
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McGirr, Elaine M., 1972- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stage mothers. Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, ©2014 9781611486032 (DLC) 2014033369 (OCoLC)883647341 |
| ISBN |
9781611486049 electronic book |
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1611486041 electronic book |
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