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Title:

Notorious muse : the actress in British art and culture, 1776-1812 / edited by Robyn Asleson.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xix, 212 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Actresses--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Actresses--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Actresses--Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.
Actresses--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Actresses in art.

Other Authors:

Asleson, Robyn, 1961-

Notes:

"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Yale Center for British Art." Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

"Painted women" : Reynolds and the cult of the courtesan / Martin Postle -- Ambiguity and desire : metaphors of sexuality in late eighteenth-century representation of the actress / Gill Perry -- Shakespeare and the rival muses : Siddons versus Jordan / Jonathan Bate -- Costuming the part : a discourse of fashion and fiction in the image of the actress in England, 1776-1812 / Aileen Ribeiro -- The ideal shatters : Sarah Siddons, madness, and the dynamics of gesture / Frederick Burwick -- Body connoisseurship / Shearer West -- Painting, politics and the stage in the age of caricature / Heather McPherson -- Patina : Mrs. Siddons and the depth of surfaces / Joseph Roach.

Series:

Studies in British art 11

ISBN:

9780300100051
0300100051

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51569250

LCCN:

2003104085

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)