The Victorian actress in the novel and on the stage / Renata Kobetts Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Renata Kobetts, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actresses in literature--History--19th century.

Actresses in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Performing arts--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Performing arts.

Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women in the theater.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences. Providing new understandings of how the novel and theatre developed, Miller explores how their representations shaped the position of the actress in Victorian culture with regard to her authenticity, her ability to foster sympathetic bonds, and her relationships to social class and the domestic sphere. The book traces how this cultural history led actresses to appropriate the pen themselves by becoming suffragette playwrights, thereby writing new social roles for women."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Actress's Tears: Authenticity and the Reassertion of Social Class

2. The Actress at Home: Domesticity, Respectability and the Disruption of Class Hierarchies

3. The Actress and Her Audience: Performance, Authorship and the Exceptional Woman in George Eliot

4. Novelistic Naturalism: `The Ideal Mother Cannot Be the Great Artist'

5. From Playing Parts to Rewriting Roles: Actresses and the Political Stage.

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Miller, Renata Kobetts. Victorian actress in the novel and on the stage.

ISBN:

1474439497

9781474439497

OCLC:

1085637585