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Summary:

"Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women's place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals. A revealing foray into a lost time, Starring Women returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Between Stock and Star: Theater and Touring in the United States, 1790-1830
• (Dis)Obedient Daughters and Devoted Wives: The Family Politics of Stock and Star
• The Promise and Limits of Female Stage Celebrity: Fanny Kemble in America, 1832-835
• Bringing Female Spectacle to the "Western Country," 1835-840
• Danger, Desire, and the Celebrity Mania: Fanny Elssler in America, 1840-1842
• The American Actress's Starring Playbook, 1831-1857
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Lampert, Sara E., 1982- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Starring Women Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 [by Lampert, S.E.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Starring women [by Lampert, S.E.] (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020 — ISBN 9780252052231; LCCN 2020017016)

Related Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE

Subjects:

Theater and society — United States — History — 19th century

Theater — United States — History — 19th century

Actresses — United States — Biography

Women in the theater — United States — History — 19th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PN1590.W64 L355 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780252052231
0252052234
9780252043352 [Invalid]
9780252085260 [Invalid]
0252043359 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020017015 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1201377502

Other Control Numbers:

2636848 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301636160