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Author Miller, Renata Kobetts, author.

Title The Victorian actress in the novel and on the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : EUP, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Actresses -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Actresses.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Women in the theater.
Actresses in literature.
Actresses in literature.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Victorian actress in the novel and on the stage. [Place of publication not identified], EDINBURGH UNIV Press, 2018 1474439497 (OCoLC)1039933305
ISBN 9781474439510 (electronic book)
1474439519 (electronic book)
9781474439497 (hardback)
1474439497 (hardback)

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