Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2014] |
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| Description: | xv, 274 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 Transits (Bucknell University). |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10116991 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Actresses, Motherhood, and the Profession of the Stage
- 1. "The Divided Heart of the Actress": Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses and the "Cult of Maternity"
- 2. The Inconvenience of the Female Condition: Anne Oldfield's Pregnancies
- 3. "Inimitable Sensibility": Susannah Cibber's Performance of Maternity
- 4. Working Mothers on the Romantic Stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson
- Part II. Representations of Mothers on the Stage and the Page
- 5. Rebels for Love: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's Mustapha
- 6. Rowe's The Ambitious Stepmother: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended Family
- 7. Staged Virtue: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720s
- 8. Maternal Duties and Filial Malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance
- 9. My Son, My Lover: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in The Mysterious Mother
- Part III. Actresses and their Children
- 10. Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the Domestic Drama of Mother-Son Relations
- 11. Mommy Diva: The Divided Loyalties of Sarah Siddons
- 11. The Gerbini Letters: or, A Tale of Two Mothers
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
