Staging family : domestic deceptions of mid-nineteenth-century American actresses / Nan Mullenneaux.
| Author/creator | Mullenneaux, Nan author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2018] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Expanding frontiers : interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Mullenneaux, Nan. Staging family. Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2018] 9780803284623 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781496210913 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1496210913 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv80w85r JSTOR |