Stage mothers women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr.

Other author Engel, Laura.
Other author McGirr, Elaine M., 1972-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
Description1 online resource (xv, 274 pages)
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Subjects
Women in the theater--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Women in the theater--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Actresses--Great Britain. --Biography.
Working mothers--Great Britain. --Biography.
English drama--18th century. --History and criticism.
English drama--19th century. --History and criticism.
English drama--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.

SeriesTransits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Contents Introduction / Elaine M. McGirr and Laura Engel -- Actresses, motherhood, and the profession of the stage. The divided heart of the actress: late eighteenth-century actresses and the "cult of maternity" / Helen E.M. Brooks -- The inconvenience of the female condition: Anne Oldfield's pregnancies / J.D. Phillipson -- "Inimitable sensibility": Susannah Cibber's performance of maternity / Elaine M. McGirr -- Working mothers on the romantic stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson / Ellen Malenas Ledoux -- Representations of mothers on the stage and the page. Rebels for love: maternity, absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's Mustapha / Laura R. Rosenthal -- Rowe's The ambitious stepmother: motherhood and the politics of the blended family / Marilyn Francus -- Staged virtue: Anastasia Robinson as ideal mother in two operas of the 1720 / Kathryn Lowerre -- Maternal duties and filial malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the problems of theatrical inheritance / Emrys Jones -- My son, my lover: Gothic contagion and maternal sexuality in the mysterious mother / Jade Higa -- Actresses and their children: Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the domestic drama of mother-son relations / Judith Hawley -- Mommy diva: the divided loyalities of Sarah Siddons / Laura Engel -- The Gerbini letters: or, a tale of two mothers / Gilli Bush-Bailey.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Stage mothers Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2014] 9781611486032 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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