The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage /

The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage / / Renata Kobetts Miller.

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresTraces the actress as a figure in social and literary struggles, and examines the interrelations between these fields as they informed each otherTraces a genealogy of Victorian cultural attitudes toward actresses that culminated...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Miller, Renata Kobetts,
MitwirkendeR:
Wolfreys, Julian,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on the Cover
  • Introduction: Setting the Stage – Views of Victorian Theatre
  • 1. An Actress’s Tears: Authenticity and the Reassertion of Social Class
  • 2. The Actress at Home: Domesticity, Respectability and the Disruption of Class Hierarchies
  • 3. The Actress and Her Audience: Performance, Authorship and the Exceptional Woman in George Eliot
  • 4. Novelistic Naturalism: ‘The Ideal Mother Cannot Be the Great Artist’
  • 5. From Playing Parts to Rewriting Roles: Actresses and the Political Stage
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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