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Staging family : domestic deceptions of mid-nineteenth-century American actresses / Nan Mullenneaux.
Van Pelt Library PN2286.8 .M85 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mullenneaux, Nan, author.
- Series:
- Expanding frontiers
- Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actresses--United States--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Families.
- Conduct of life.
- United States.
- Actresses--United States--Conduct of life.
- Actresses--Family relationships--United States.
- Theater--United States--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 400 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803284623
- 0803284624
- OCLC:
- 1031909027
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