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UNINA9910462919703321 |
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David Deirdre <1934-> |
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Fanny Kemble [[electronic resource] ] : a performed life / / Deirdre David |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007 |
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1 online resource (371 p.) |
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Actors - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue. Before the Curtain -- 1. The Green-Room -- 2. The Gaze of Every Eye -- 3. Reform and Romance -- 4. Seeing the World -- 5. On the Brink -- 6. The Outer Bound of Civilized Creation -- 7. A Dreary Lesson of Human Suffering -- 8. "A Woful Ruin" -- 9. The Havoc of a Single Life -- 10. Fanny's Master -- 11. Mothers and Daughters -- 12. The Unfurling Sea -- Kemble Genealogy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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A Foreword magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband's Georgia plantations. She was, in her own words, irresistible as a "woman who has sat at dinner alongside Byron . . . and who calls Tennyson, Alfred. "Touring in America with her father in the early 1830's, Kemble impulsively wed the wealthy and charming Philadelphia bachelor Pierce Butler, beginning a tumultuous marriage that ended in a sensational divorce and custody battle fourteen years later. At the time of their |
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marriage, Kemble had not yet visited the vast Georgia rice and cotton plantations to which Butler was heir. In the winter of 1838, they visited Butler's southern holdings, and a horrified Kemble wrote what would later be published on both sides of the Atlantic as Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. An important text for abolitionists, it revealed the inner workings of a plantation and the appalling conditions in which slaves lived. Returning to England after her divorce, she fashioned a new career as a solo performer of Shakespeare's plays and as the author of memoirs, several travel narratives and collections of poems, a short novel, and miscellaneous essays on the theater. For the rest of her life, she would divide her time between the two countries. In the various roles she performed in her life, on stage and off-abolitionist, author, estranged wife-Kemble remained highly theatrical, appropriating and subverting nineteenth-century prescriptions for women's lives, ever rewriting the roles to which she was assigned by society and inheritance. Hers was truly a performed life, and in the first Kemble biography in twenty-five years to examine that life in its entirety, Deirdre David presents it in all its richness and complexity. |
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UNINA9910787184203321 |
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Eubank Keith |
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The origins of World War II / / Keith Eubank |
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Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 2004 |
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2004 |
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[Third edition.] |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Causes |
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Europe Politics and government 1918-1945 |
Germany Foreign relations 1933-1945 |
Germany Military policy |
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Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface to the Third Edition ; Chapter 1: ""peace , "" 1918-1933 ; November 11 , 1918 ; The Treaty of Versailles ; French ""security "" ; German ""good Faith"" ; Economic Crisis ; Chapter 2: The Uneasy Peace, 1933-1935 ; Adolf Hitler ; Rearmament and Disarmament ; The Four-power Pact ; The Dollfuss Affair ; Germany''s Military Renaissance ; The Franco-soviet Pact ; The Anglo-german Naval Agreement ; Notes ; Chapter 3: Years of Crisis, 1935-1938 ; Mussolini and Ethiopia ; Hitler in the Rhineland ; The Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War |
Appeasement and Appeasers Notes ; Chapter 4: The Road to War, 1938 ; The Reichschancellery Meeting ; The Anschluss ; Crisis in Czechoslovakia ; The Munich Conference ; The End of Czechoslovakia ; Notes ; Chapter 5: War, 1 939 ; Danzig ; Appeasement Fails ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliographical Essay ; Index |
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More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: |
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Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance on the part of Britain and France to confront Germany? Why had Germany been permitted to rearm and to occupy independent nations without a struggle? What was the policy of appeasement? Why did the appe |
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