LEADER 04397nam 2200805 450 001 9910787924103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61148-605-X 010 $a1-61148-604-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000577542 035 $a(EBL)1864114 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001368851 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11883142 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368851 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11286397 035 $a(PQKB)11037750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1864114 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1864114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11027776 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL664127 035 $a(OCoLC)896794370 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000577542 100 $a20150310h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStage mothers $ewomen, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 /$fedited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr 210 1$aLewisburg, [Pennsylvania] :$cBucknell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (291 p.) 225 1 $aTransits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61148-603-3 311 $a1-322-32845-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 PAGE 327 $aChapter 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 CHILDREN 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aStage Mothers 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.
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