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The Lady Actress

出版	Wapshott Press, 2008-11-05
主題	History / General
ISBN	06152625039780615262505
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m4JTPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Anna Cora Mowatt (1819-1870), was a mid-nineteenth century American author, public reader, playwright and actress, a well-known and respected figure among her contemporaries in American literary and dramatic circles. Her play, Fashion, was the first Broadway comedy hit penned by a woman. This book investigates the rhetoric of surviving artifacts of Mowatt's life in order to explore the ways in which Mowatt created a public self through these works. Mowatt's nonfictional Autobiography of an Actress, her novel Mimic Life, her experience with mesmerism, her comedy Fashion, and her poem "My Life" are examined in depth along with the context of each creation within contemporary Victorian society. Mowatt played both the rebel and the conservative in her time. By keeping her unconventionality carefully concealed by narrative and rhetorical acumen, Mowatt was able to have her cultural cake and eat it too. She was an independent working woman in a time when upper and middle class writers and speakers often looked on such women with suspicion or scorn. She presented herself to the public in the questionable roles of actress and lady author and still managed to pull off the feat of being generally acclaimed a lady."--Publisher's description