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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transits (Bucknell University)Publisher: Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611486049
  • 1611486041
  • 1611486033
  • 9781611486032
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stage mothers.DDC classification:
  • 792.02/80820941 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2582.W65 S73 2014eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: <Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Stage Mothers expands the discussion of eighteenth-century women's social and dramatic roles by demonstrating the complicated, contradictory, and celebratory faces of maternity on stage and on the page. This collection examines and extends recent debates in women's history, theater history, and eighteenth-century literature and drama. <br />
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.

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<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Stage Mothers expands the discussion of eighteenth-century women's social and dramatic roles by demonstrating the complicated, contradictory, and celebratory faces of maternity on stage and on the page. This collection examines and extends recent debates in women's history, theater history, and eighteenth-century literature and drama. <br />

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