04397nam 2200805 450 991078792410332120200520144314.01-61148-605-X1-61148-604-1(CKB)2670000000577542(EBL)1864114(SSID)ssj0001368851(PQKBManifestationID)11883142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368851(PQKBWorkID)11286397(PQKB)11037750(MiAaPQ)EBC1864114(Au-PeEL)EBL1864114(CaPaEBR)ebr11027776(CaONFJC)MIL664127(OCoLC)896794370(EXLCZ)99267000000057754220150310h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStage mothers women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 /edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirrLewisburg, [Pennsylvania] :Bucknell University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (291 p.)Transits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850Description based upon print version of record.1-61148-603-3 1-322-32845-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. ACTRESSES, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE PROFESSION OF THE STAGE; Chapter 1. "THE DIVIDED HEART OF THE ACTRESS: "Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses and the"Cult of Maternity"; Chapter 2. THE INCONVENIENCE OF THE FEMALE CONDITION: Anne Oldfield's Pregnancies; Chapter 3. "INIMITABLE SENSIBILITY": Susannah Cibber's Performance of Maternity; Chapter 4. WORKING MOTHERS ON THE ROMANTIC STAGE: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson; Part II. REPRESENTATIONS OF MOTHERS ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGEChapter 5. REBELS FOR LOVE: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's MustaphaChapter 6. ROWE'S THE AMBITIOUS STEPMOTHER: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended Family; Chapter 7. STAGED VIRTUE: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720s; Chapter 8. MATERNAL DUTIES AND FILIAL MALAPROPISMS: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance; Chapter 9. MY SON, MY LOVER: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in The Mysterious Mother; Part III. ACTRESSES AND THEIR CHILDRENChapter 10. ELIZABETH AND KEPPEL CRAVEN AND THE DOMESTIC DRAMA OF MOTHER-SON RELATIONSChapter 11. MOMMY DIVA: The Divided Loyalties of Sarah Siddons; Chapter 12. THE GERBINI LETTERS: OR, A TALE OF TWO MOTHERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Stage Mothers</span><span> expands the discussion of eighteenth-century women's social and dramatic roles by demonstrating the complicated, contradictory, and celebratory faces of maternity on stage and on the page. This collection examines and extends recent debates in women's history, theater history, and eighteenth-century literature and drama.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>Transits (Bucknell University)Women in the theaterGreat BritainHistory18th centuryWomen in the theaterGreat BritainHistory19th centuryActressesGreat BritainBiographyWorking mothersGreat BritainBiographyEnglish drama18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish drama19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish dramaWomen authorsHistory and criticismMothers in literatureMotherhood in literatureWomen in the theaterHistoryWomen in the theaterHistoryActressesWorking mothersEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Mothers in literature.Motherhood in literature.792.02/80820941Engel LauraMcGirr Elaine M.1972-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787924103321Stage mothers3786666UNINA