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Title:

Representations of gender on the nineteenth-century American stage / editor, Noreen Barnes-McLain.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,
University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

126 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women in the theater--United States--History--19th century.
American drama--19th century--History and criticism.
Actresses--United States.

Other Authors:

Barnes, Noreen C.
Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)

Other Titles:

Theatre symposium.

Notes:

Issued as: Theatre symposium, vol. 10. "Papers delivered at the April 2001 SETC Theater Symposium ... Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia"--P. [5]. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Part I. Images of men and women in nineteenth-century drama. Suppressing the female voice: Edwin Forrest's silencing of women in Jack Cade / Karl Kippola -- The old buzzard: figuring gender in The Black Crook / Dorothy Holland -- In her place: a consideration of gendered space in nineteenth-century melodrama / Laurie Wolf -- Seeing double: theatrical strategy and cultural anxieties in Boucicault / Brian T. Carney.
Part II. Cross-dressing, commodity, and community. The stage is not the place for real women: the odd career of Lulu Glaser / Martha S. LoMonaco -- Women and the benefit: "peculiar constructions" and representations of gendered communities / Helen Huff -- Breeches and blondes: nineteenth-century theatrical and cultural performance / Kirsten Pullen -- Cross-dressing in nineteenth-century frontier drama / Roger Hall -- Clean and sober: women celebrity endorsers and the 1883 Pears' Soap campaign / Sherry J. Caldwell -- Post-symposium discussion: an excerpt.

ISBN:

9780817311650
0817311653

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51025010

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)