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Starring women : celebrity, patriarchy, and American theater, 1790-1850 / Sara E. Lampert.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN1590.W64 L355 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lampert, Sara E., 1982- author.
- Series:
- Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the theater--United States--History--19th century.
- Women in the theater.
- Actresses--United States--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Theater--United States--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- Theater and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Theater and society.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women's place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals. A revealing foray into a lost time, 'Starring Women' returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Between Stock and Star: Theater and Touring in the United States, 1790-1830
- ch. 2 (Dis)Obedient Daughters and Devoted Wives: The Family Politics of Stock and Star
- ch. 3 The Promise and Limits of Female Stage Celebrity: Fanny Kemble in America, 1832
- 1835
- ch. 4 Bringing Female Spectacle to the "Western Country," 1835
- 1840
- ch. 5 Danger, Desire, and the Celebrity Mania: Fanny Elssler in America, 1840
- 1842
- ch. 6 The American Actress's Starring Playbook, 1831
- 1857.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0252043359
- 9780252043352
- 0252085264
- 9780252085260
- OCLC:
- 1142521754
- Publisher Number:
- 99987013158
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