"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.
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