Stage 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.
Stage 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.
Laura Engel is associate professor in the English department at Duquesne University. Elaine M. McGirr is senior lecturer in English and drama at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Contents Introduction Elaine M. McGirr and Laura Engel Part One: 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" Helen E.M. Brooks Chapter 2. The Inconvenience of the Female Condition: Anne Oldfield's Pregnancies J.D. Phillipson Chapter 3. "Inimitable Sensibility": Susannah Cibber's Performance of Maternity Elaine M. McGirr Chapter 4. Working Mothers on the Romantic Stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson Ellen Malenas Ledoux Part Two. Representations of Mothers on the Stage and the Page Chapter 5. Rebels for Love: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's Mustapha Laura R. Rosenthal Chapter 6. Rowe's The Ambitious Stepmother: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended Family Marilyn Francus Chapter 7. Staged Virtue: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720 Kathryn Lowerre Chapter 8. Maternal Duties and Filial Malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance Emrys Jones Chapter 9. My Son, My Lover: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in the Mysterious Mother Jade Higa Part Three. Actresses and their Children Chapter 10. Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the Domestic Drama of Mother-Son Relations Judith Hawley Chapter 11. Mommy Diva: The Divided Loyalities of Sarah Siddons Laura Engel Chapter 12. The Gerbini Letters: or, A Tale of Two Mothers Gilli Bush-Bailey Bibliography About the Contributors
Contents Introduction Elaine M. McGirr and Laura Engel Part One: 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" Helen E.M. Brooks Chapter 2. The Inconvenience of the Female Condition: Anne Oldfield's Pregnancies J.D. Phillipson Chapter 3. "Inimitable Sensibility": Susannah Cibber's Performance of Maternity Elaine M. McGirr Chapter 4. Working Mothers on the Romantic Stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson Ellen Malenas Ledoux Part Two. Representations of Mothers on the Stage and the Page Chapter 5. Rebels for Love: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's Mustapha Laura R. Rosenthal Chapter 6. Rowe's The Ambitious Stepmother: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended Family Marilyn Francus Chapter 7. Staged Virtue: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720 Kathryn Lowerre Chapter 8. Maternal Duties and Filial Malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance Emrys Jones Chapter 9. My Son, My Lover: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in the Mysterious Mother Jade Higa Part Three. Actresses and their Children Chapter 10. Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the Domestic Drama of Mother-Son Relations Judith Hawley Chapter 11. Mommy Diva: The Divided Loyalities of Sarah Siddons Laura Engel Chapter 12. The Gerbini Letters: or, A Tale of Two Mothers Gilli Bush-Bailey Bibliography About the Contributors
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