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Staging family : domestic deceptions of mid-nineteenth-century American actresses
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Staging family : domestic deceptions of mid-nineteenth-century American actresses / Nan Mullenneaux.
ISBN
9780803284623
0803284624
9781496210890
9781496210906
9781496210913
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xx, 400 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Examing the careers and lives of more than fifty nineteenth-century American actresses, Staging Family explores the interplay of culture, labor, and family in the advancement of mid-1800s social and political change"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2019
Series
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the axe and the faint
Opportunity or necessity?
Trials and vicissitudes
Domesticating mobility and nationalizing transnationalism
Child actresses : private family, public persona, and national identity
Embodying America : race and class
Reinventing the private family : children and siblings
Acting couples versus acting coupled
Domestic differences
Managing motherhood
Later life and legacies.
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