Daughters of Eve : a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle
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Daughters of Eve : a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle
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The work Daughters of Eve : a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Daughters of Eve : a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle
- Title remainder
- a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle
- Statement of responsibility
- Lenard R. Berlanstein
- Subject
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- Acteurs
- Actresses
- Actresses -- France -- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Biography
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- France
- France
- History
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning
- Toneel
- Vrouwen
- Women in the theater
- Women in the theater -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Women in the theater -- France -- History -- 19th century
- 1700-1899
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Female stage performers haunted French public life in the century before and after the Revolution. This study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. From the moment they became an unofficial caste of mistresses to France's elite during the reign of Louis XIV, their image fluctuated between emasculating men and delighting them. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, society columns, theater criticism, government reports, autobiographies, public rituals, and a huge corpus of fiction, Lenard 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. Tolerated when civil society functioned and demonized when it faltered, they finally passed from notoriety to celebrity with the stabilization of parliamentary life after 1880. Only then could female fans admire them openly, and could the state officially recognize their contributions to national life. Daughters of Eve is a look at how a culture creates social perceptions and reshuffles collective identities in response to political change
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- digitized
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 792/.028/082094409033
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN2622.W65
- LC item number
- B47 2001eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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