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Title:

Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xv, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Actresses.
English drama.
English drama--Women authors.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Women in the theater.
Working mothers.
Great Britain.
1700 - 1899
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Engel, Laura, editor.
McGirr, Elaine M., 1972- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

ISBN:

1611486033
9781611486032

OCLC:

(OCoLC)883647341

LCCN:

2014033369

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)