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• Author/Creator:Mullenneaux, Nan, author.
  
• Title:Staging family : domestic deceptions of mid-nineteenth-century American actresses / Nan Mullenneaux.
  
• ISBN:9780803284623
  0803284624
  9781496210890
  9781496210906
  9781496210913
  
• Publication:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
  
• Physical Description:xx, 400 pages ; 24 cm.
  

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  • Location:HAAS ARTS LIBRARY, Drama Collection
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  • Call Number: PN2286.8 .M85 2018 (LC)
    
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• Summary:"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"--
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
  Expanding frontiers.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents: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.
  
• Subjects:Actresses--United States--Biography.
  Actresses--United States--Conduct of life.
  Actresses--Family relationships--United States.
  Theater--United States--History--19th century.
  Actresses.
  Theater.
  United States.