Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the birth of American celebrity
"Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. Menken succeeded by playing with her identity off-stage and on, portraying herself as both respectable and daring and claiming various racial and eth...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. Menken succeeded by playing with her identity off-stage and on, portraying herself as both respectable and daring and claiming various racial and ethnic identities. Playing male roles on stage, she became the reigning femme fatale. Yet she was also known as an intellectual, publishing poetry and essays. She shared friendships with the greatest writers of her time, including Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Alexandre Dumas, pere." "Performing Menken also looks at what Menken's choices reveal about her period. It explores the roots of the cult of celebrity that emerged from the 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 remain important."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 313 p. ill. : 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0521820707 |
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Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity
RENEE M SENTILLES
Case Western Reserve University
| CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
Acknowledgments page ix
Introduction i
1 Playing Deborah 22
2 Playing the Pugilist s Wife: 18 59-1860 50
3 Performing Mazeppa 91
4 Performing Menken 115
5 Among the Bohemians 138
6 Becoming Mazeppa 166
7 Becoming the Menken: 1864-1866 200
8 Finale 231
9 Remembering and Rewriting Menken 258
Bibliography 287
Index 303
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