
Staging Family
Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses
Nan Mullenneaux
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 12/2018
Pages: 462
Subject: History
eBook ISBN: 9781496210890
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nan Mullenneaux is a lecturer in international writing in Duke University's Thompson Writing Program and Duke Kunshan University.
REVIEWS
"A richly detailed study of the rhetorical and performative strategies employed by nineteenth-century American actresses to construct the public identities as ideal, middle-class domestic women upon which their success depended. The work is solidly grounded in the context of mid-nineteenth-century American nation building, social mobility, and changing roles for women and vividly illustrates the development of a new, distinctive voice and culture for the young republic. Nan Mullenneaux's work is a welcome and highly readable addition to theater scholarship as well as an engaging work of social and women's history in its own right."—Amy Lehman, director of graduate studies, Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina
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