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Author:   Paul Fryer
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780786460755

ISBN 10:   078646075
Pages:   237
Publication Date:   01 November 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: But Where Were the Women?      PAUL FRYER Sarah Bernhardt: Artist and Mythologist      DEBRA CHARLTON Pauline Sherwood Townsend: American Proponent of Expression and Pageantry      NENA COUCH Lillie Langtry: From “Professional Beauty” to International Icon      REBECCA A. UMLAND Fashioning Herself a Lady: Anna Cora Mowatt’s “Bold Experiment”      ADRIENNE MACKI BRACONI Ida Rubinstein, Fixer Fatale      EDWARD FORMAN Loïe Fuller’s “Orgy of Color”: Modernity, Eternity and the Folies-Bergère      SEBASTIAN TRAINOR Sculpture in Motion: Nina Simonovich-Efimova and the Petrushka Theatre      DASSIA N. POSNER Keeping the House: Augusta Gregory and the National Theatre of Ireland      BERNADETTE SWEENEY Caldwell, Donnelly and Young: Women Writing in the American Musical Theatre      ELLEN MARIE PECK Armande de Polignac: An Aristocratic Compositrice in Fin-de-siècle Paris      LAURA HAMER The Most Artistic Lady Artist on Earth: Vesta Victoria      CAROL A. MORLEY The Graphic Power of Käthe Kollwitz      RINA ARYA About the Contributors      Index     

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Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, London South Bank and East London.

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