Sexual Suspects
Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology
1st Edition
Published on 14. November 2023
212 pages
978-0-691-25889-8 (ISBN)
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Princeton University Press
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Princeton University Press
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Kristina Straub is professor emerita of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her books include Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain and (with Nora Nachumi) Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Ocular Affairs: The Gendering of Eighteenth-Century Spectacle
- II. Colley Cibber's Butt: The Construction of Actors' Masculinity
- III. Colley Cibber's Fops: Actors and Homophobia
- IV. Men from Boys: Cibber, Pope, and the Schoolboy
- V. The Construction of Actresses' Femininity
- VI. George Anne Bellamy: The Actress as Sentimental Victim
- VII. The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke
- VIII. Bodies in Pain: The Subjection of Players
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
