04181nam 22008654a 450 991082478440332120230912162537.01-283-52994-797866138423980-7735-7147-710.1515/9780773571471(CKB)1000000000245002(OCoLC)76898647(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119755(SSID)ssj0000283516(PQKBManifestationID)11205300(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283516(PQKBWorkID)10247335(PQKB)10780751(CaPaEBR)400157(CaBNvSL)gtp00521436 (Au-PeEL)EBL3330729(CaPaEBR)ebr10132912(CaONFJC)MIL384239(OCoLC)929120892(DE-B1597)656360(DE-B1597)9780773571471(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/n6g5s5(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400157(MiAaPQ)EBC3330729(MiAaPQ)EBC3243416(EXLCZ)99100000000024500220041201d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRedressing the past[electronic resource] the politics of early English-Canadian women's drama, 1880-1920 /Kym BirdMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20041 online resource (282 p.)Includes index.0-7735-2611-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Feminist Politics and the Recovery of Women’s Drama -- Leaping into the Breeches: Liberal Feminism in Sarah Anne Curzon’s Laura Secord and The Sweet Girl Graduate -- Performing Politics: Propaganda, Parody, and the Mock Parliament -- “Mothers of a New and Virile Race!”: Liberalism and Social Purity in the Life and Works of Kate Simpson Hayes -- Instructive and Wholesome: Domestic Feminism, Social Gospel, and the Protestant Plays of Clara Rothwell Anderson -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBird argues that the playwrights, their productions, and their texts express the contradictory relations within these forms of feminism: on the one hand they represent women's social and political emancipation and, on the other, they affirm patriarchal structures and the status quo. Implicitly, this study calls into question what traditionally constitutes drama by treating plays written in non-canonical forms, mounted in nonprofessional venues, and published by marginal presses or not at all as important literary, theatrical, and historical documents.Canadian dramaWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureCanadaHistory19th centuryFeminism and literatureCanadaHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureCanadaHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureCanadaHistory20th centuryCanadian drama19th centuryHistory and criticismCanadian drama20th centuryHistory and criticismFeminist dramaHistory and criticismWomenCanadaIntellectual lifeSex role in literatureCanadian dramaWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistoryFeminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryCanadian dramaHistory and criticism.Canadian dramaHistory and criticism.Feminist dramaHistory and criticism.WomenIntellectual life.Sex role in literature.812/.409/32042Bird Kym1956-1681663MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824784403321Redressing the past4051209UNINA