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- catalog abstract ""As these essays demonstrate, the cultural and social position of the British actress was in transition at this period. The growing professionalism of the female performer, along with her greater social mobility, financial sufficiency, and creative autonomy, began to supplant - though not entirely erase - her time-honoured reputation as a sexual object."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12901893.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""As these essays demonstrate, the cultural and social position of the British actress was in transition at this period. The growing professionalism of the female performer, along with her greater social mobility, financial sufficiency, and creative autonomy, began to supplant - though not entirely erase - her time-honoured reputation as a sexual object."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Painted women" : Reynolds and the cult of the courtesan / Martin Postle -- Ambiguity and desire : metaphors of sexuality in late eighteenth-century representation of the actress / Gill Perry -- Shakespeare and the rival muses : Siddons versus Jordan / Jonathan Bate -- Costuming the part : a discourse of fashion and fiction in the image of the actress in England, 1776-1812 / Aileen Ribeiro -- The ideal shatters : Sarah Siddons, madness, and the dynamics of gesture / Frederick Burwick -- Body connoisseurship / Shearer West -- Painting, politics and the stage in the age of caricature / Heather McPherson -- Patina : Mrs. Siddons and the depth of surfaces / Joseph Roach.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xix, 212 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300100051".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in British art ; 11".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "760/.0449792028/0820941 22".
- catalog subject "Actresses in art.".
- catalog subject "Art, British 18th century Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "Art, British 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, British 19th century Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "Art, British 19th century.".
- catalog subject "N8217.A33 N67 2003".
- catalog subject "Theater and society Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Theater and society Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Painted women" : Reynolds and the cult of the courtesan / Martin Postle -- Ambiguity and desire : metaphors of sexuality in late eighteenth-century representation of the actress / Gill Perry -- Shakespeare and the rival muses : Siddons versus Jordan / Jonathan Bate -- Costuming the part : a discourse of fashion and fiction in the image of the actress in England, 1776-1812 / Aileen Ribeiro -- The ideal shatters : Sarah Siddons, madness, and the dynamics of gesture / Frederick Burwick -- Body connoisseurship / Shearer West -- Painting, politics and the stage in the age of caricature / Heather McPherson -- Patina : Mrs. Siddons and the depth of surfaces / Joseph Roach.".
- catalog title "Notorious muse : the actress in British art and culture, 1776-1812 / edited by Robyn Asleson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".