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Stage Mothers - Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830 (Paperback)
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Stage Mothers - Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830 (Paperback)
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the
theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth
century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood
and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in
relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the
idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a
professional, material, literary, and cultural site has received
little critical attention. The essays in this volume, spanning the
period from the Restoration to Regency, address these forgotten
maternal narratives, focusing on: the representation of motherhood
as the defining female role; the interplay between an actress's
celebrity persona and her chosen roles; the performative balance
between the cults of maternity and that of the "passionate"
actress; and tensions between sex and maternity and/or maternity
and public authority. In examining the overlaps and disconnections
between representations and realities of maternity in the long
eighteenth century, and by looking at written, received, visual,
and performed records of motherhood, Stage Mothers makes an
important contribution to debates central to eighteenth-century
cultural history.
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