Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American CelebrityCambridge University Press, 2003. gada 26. maijs - 313 lappuses Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period and what Menken's choices reveal about her period. It explores the roots of the cult of celebrity that emerged from crucible of war. While discussing Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality, Performing Menken focuses on contemporary use of social categories to explain patterns in America's past and considers why such categories appear to remain important. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Playing Deborah | 22 |
Playing the Pugilists Wife 18591860 | 50 |
Performing Mazeppa | 91 |
Performing Menken | 115 |
Among the Bohemians | 138 |
Becoming Mazeppa | 166 |
Becoming the Menken 18641866 | 200 |
Finale | 231 |
Remembering and Rewriting Menken | 258 |
Bibliography | 287 |
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