Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis |
Autore | Davis Tracy C. <1960, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/84/082 |
Collana | Gender and performance |
Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-93447-5
1-134-93446-7 9786610442713 0-203-20001-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450198703321 |
Davis Tracy C. <1960, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis |
Autore | Davis Tracy C. <1960, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/84/082 |
Collana | Gender and performance |
Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain |
ISBN |
1-280-44271-9
1-134-93447-5 1-134-93446-7 9786610442713 0-203-20001-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783638503321 |
Davis Tracy C. <1960, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis |
Autore | Davis Tracy C. <1960-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/84/082 |
Collana | Gender and performance |
Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain |
ISBN |
1-280-44271-9
1-134-93447-5 1-134-93446-7 9786610442713 0-203-20001-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817022403321 |
Davis Tracy C. <1960-> | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 792.02/80820941 |
Collana | Transits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain Working mothers - Great Britain 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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-61148-605-X
1-61148-604-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 PAGE
Chapter 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 Chapter 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463306203321 |
Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 792.02/80820941 |
Collana | Transits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain Working mothers - Great Britain 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 |
ISBN |
1-61148-605-X
1-61148-604-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 PAGE
Chapter 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 Chapter 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787924103321 |
Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 792.02/80820941 |
Collana | Transits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain Working mothers - Great Britain 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 |
ISBN |
1-61148-605-X
1-61148-604-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 PAGE
Chapter 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 Chapter 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813547303321 |
Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Women's romantic theatre and drama : history, agency, and performativity / / edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
Disciplina | 822/.8099282 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CrisafulliLilla Maria
ElamKeir |
Soggetto topico |
English drama - Women authors - History and criticism
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-351-87118-8
1-138-26513-6 1-315-23348-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Historical drama and romantic historiography -- pt. II. Dramaturgical and cultural processes -- pt. III. Women staging, women staged. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154604203321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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