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Daughters of Eve : A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Daughters of EveLOC classification:
  • PN2622
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789 -- 3. Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815 -- 4. Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- 5. The Erotic Culture of the Stage -- 6. The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- 7. Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914 -- 8. Performing a Self -- 9. From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789 -- 3. Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815 -- 4. Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- 5. The Erotic Culture of the Stage -- 6. The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- 7. Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914 -- 8. Performing a Self -- 9. From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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