Starring Women

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252085260

Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850

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By Sara E. Lampert
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Between Stock and Star: Theater and Touring in the United States, 1790-1830
Chapter 2. Dis/Obedient Daughters and Devoted Wives: The Family Politics of Stock and Star
Chapter 3. The Promise and Limits of Female Stage Celebrity: Fanny Kemble in America, 1832-1835
Chapter 4. Bringing Female Spectacle to the “Western Country,a 1835-1840
Chapter 5. Danger, Desire, and the Celebrity “Maniaa: Fanny Elssler in America, 1840-1842
Chapter 6. The American Actress' Starring Playbook, 1831-1857
Conclusion
Notes
Index

""An excellent intervention in women's history and theater history, with significant new insights into the precarious gender politics that accompanied star female actors' appearance and the ways the economic underpinnings of the business of theater colored

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