Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Performing Menken

Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

Performing Menken( )
Author: Sentilles, Renée M.
Sentilles, Renée M.
ISBN:978-1-139-23695-9
Publication Date:Jul 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $200.00
Book Description:

Performing Menken, first published in 2003, uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. It discusses Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality in the context of the social categories of her day.




Featured Books

Angels Fall
Roberts, Nora
Paperback: $16.99
The Book of Love
Link, Kelly
Hardback: $31.00
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.