domestic deceptions of mid-nineteenth-century American actresses /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nan Mullenneaux.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Lincoln, Nebraska :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Nebraska Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : the axe and the faint -- Opportunity or necessity? -- Trials and vicissitudes -- Domesticating mobility and nationalizing transnationalism -- Child actresses : private family, public persona, and national identity -- Embodying America : race and class -- Reinventing the private family : children and siblings -- Acting couples versus acting coupled -- Domestic differences -- Managing motherhood -- Later life and legacies.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Examing the careers and lives of more than fifty nineteenth-century American actresses, Staging Family explores the interplay of culture, labor, and family in the advancement of mid-1800s social and political change"--