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- Condition
- Book Title
- Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and S
- ISBN
- 9780814253786
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
- Publication Name
- Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Publisher
- Ohio State University Press
- Subject
- Rich & Famous, Theater / General, Cultural Heritage, Theater / History & Criticism, Entertainment & Performing Arts, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 184 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10
0814253784
ISBN-13
9780814253786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221576819
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
VIII, 184 Pages
Publication Name
Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Rich & Famous, Theater / General, Cultural Heritage, Theater / History & Criticism, Entertainment & Performing Arts, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"Where other scholarly projects in the fields of theatre history and cultural studies have explored either the pictorial images or the writings associated with each figure, the great virtue and the original contribution of Laura Engel's study rests in its interest in demonstrating how these actresses coordinated their use of various media--theatre, portraiture, and print--to construct, enhance, or modify the contours of their celebrity." --Lisa A. Freeman, associate professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Laura Engel makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on performance, both as it pertains specifically to the theatre, and as it extends to the wide variety of creative practices that shape identity off the stage as well as on. Fashioning Celebrity is a rewarding book for students and scholars in theatre studies, performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, and gender studies."--Kristina Straub, professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University, "Laura Engel makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on performance, both as it pertains specifically to the theatre, and as it extends to the wide variety of creative practices that shape identity off the stage as well as on. Fashioning Celebrity is a rewarding book for students and scholars in theatre studies, performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, and gender studies."--Kristina Straub, professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.0/28092241
Synopsis
This volume takes a new approach to the study of late eighteenth-century British actresses by examining the significance of leading actresses' autobiographical memoirs, portraits, and theatrical roles together as significant strategies for shaping their careers. In an era when acting was considered a suspicious profession for women, eighteenth-century actresses were "celebrities" in a society obsessed with fashion, gossip, and intrigue. Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making, by Laura Engel, considers the lives and careers of four actresses: Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, Mary Wells, and Fanny Kemble. Using conventions of the era's portraiture, fashion, literature, and the theater in order to create their personas on and off stage, these actresses provided a series of techniques for fashioning celebrity that still survive today. By emphasizing the importance of reading narratives through visual and theatrical frameworks and visual and theatrical representations through narrative models, Engel demonstrates the ways in which actresses' identities were imagined through a variety of discourses that worked dialectically to construct their complex self-representations. Fashioning Celebrity suggests that eighteenth-century practices of self-promotion mirror contemporary ideas about marketing, framing, and selling the elusive self, providing a way to begin to chart a history of our contemporary obsession with fame and our preoccupation with the rise and fall of famous women.
LC Classification Number
PN2597
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