{"product_id":"the-victorian-actress-in-the-novel-and-on-the-stage-paperback","title":"The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenata Kobetts Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExamines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatres\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences. Providing new understandings of how the novel and theatre developed, Miller explores how their representations shaped the position of the actress in Victorian culture with regard to her authenticity, her ability to foster sympathetic bonds, and her relationships to social class and the domestic sphere. The book traces how this cultural history led actresses to appropriate the pen themselves by becoming suffragette playwrights, thereby writing new social roles for women. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the actress as a figure in social and literary struggles, and examines the interrelations between these fields as they informed each other\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces a genealogy of Victorian cultural attitudes toward actresses that culminated in the centrality of the theater and actresses in the early-twentieth-century women's suffrage movement \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRedresses Victorian theater's neglect in literary study, treating the theater not only as a figure in the Victorian imagination, but also as an active participant in the literary culture of its time\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides new analyses of the melodramatic and realistic mechanisms through which Victorian novels and theater established authenticity and sympathy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Renata K Miller's deeply researched and original book reveals the overlooked centrality of the Victorian actress to representations of women's rebellion in novelists from Dickens to James. In revelatory chapters on George Eliot's depiction of actresses in her fiction and poetry, and the actress as suffrage activist, muse, and feminist inspiration, she rewrites the literary history of the Victorian era.' Elaine Showalter, Princeton University Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatres This book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences. Providing new understandings of how the novel and theatre developed, Miller explores how their representations shaped the position of the actress in Victorian culture with regard to her authenticity, her ability to foster sympathetic bonds, and her relationships to social class and the domestic sphere. The book traces how this cultural history led actresses to appropriate the pen themselves by becoming suffragette playwrights, thereby writing new social roles for women. Renata Kobetts Miller is professor of English and deputy dean of Humanities and the Arts at the City College of New York. Cover image: Ellen Terry with her mother Sarah, photograph by Lewis Carroll, c. 1860s (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3949-7 Barcode\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenata Kobetts Miller is professor of English and deputy dean of Humanities and the Arts at the City College of New York. She is the author of a book on reinterpretations of \u003ci\u003eDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work on the Victorian novel and the theater has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eOxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMLQ\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBRANCH\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42163109724295,"sku":"9781474439503","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ddb4b8c01dc21539493c2ab87a509b8a.webp?v=1733294782","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-victorian-actress-in-the-novel-and-on-the-stage-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}