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Kenlon, Tabitha.

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Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel./
Author:	Kenlon, Tabitha.
Description:	226 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3618262
ISBN:	9781303864445

Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel.
Kenlon, Tabitha.

Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel. - 226 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Traditional literary criticism typically divides genres into discrete spheres, erecting barriers between plays and novels that are not entirely historically accurate. This dissertation argues that in eighteenth-century England, the walls between theatre, novels, and conduct manuals were permeable to the point of being irrelevant, as writers participated in a three-part conversation about the social performance of gender roles. I examine the construction of the female ideal on Shakespeare's stage and in eighteenth-century English theatre, conduct manuals, and novels, establishing performance as a common practice linking the centuries and mediums. The casting of boy actors in women's roles on Shakespeare's stage, I contend, created a system of gender identification by presenting simultaneous depictions of transgression and propriety, which was recognizable well into the eighteenth century. Novels and conduct manuals borrowed performative techniques from the stage to imbue their female characters with a similar dual nature and ability to engage in respectable rebellion.

ISBN: 9781303864445Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel.
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