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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroductionElaine M. McGirr and Laura EngelPart One: Actresses, Motherhood, and the Profession of the StageChapter 1. "The Divided Heart of the Actress": Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses and the "Cult of Maternity"Helen E.M. BrooksChapter 2. The Inconvenience of the Female Condition: Anne Oldfield's PregnanciesJ.D. PhillipsonChapter 3. "Inimitable Sensibility": Susannah Cibber's Performance of MaternityElaine M. McGirrChapter 4. Working Mothers on the Romantic Stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary RobinsonEllen Malenas LedouxPart Two. Representations of Mothers on the Stage and the PageChapter 5. Rebels for Love: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's MustaphaLaura R. RosenthalChapter 6. Rowe's The Ambitious Stepmother: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended FamilyMarilyn FrancusChapter 7. Staged Virtue: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720Kathryn LowerreChapter 8. Maternal Duties and Filial Malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical InheritanceEmrys JonesChapter 9. My Son, My Lover: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in the Mysterious Mother Jade HigaPart Three. Actresses and their ChildrenChapter 10. Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the Domestic Drama of Mother-Son RelationsJudith HawleyChapter 11. Mommy Diva: The Divided Loyalities of Sarah SiddonsLaura EngelChapter 12. The Gerbini Letters: or, A Tale of Two MothersGilli Bush-BaileyBibliographyAbout the Contributors...
