Actresses on the Victorian Stage
Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth
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- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2006
Summary
Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture’s assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate En…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521027465 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521027462 |
| Author: | Gail Marshall |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 389g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture |
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Gail Marshall
Gail Marshall is Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester.
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