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Performing Menken

Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Paperback
Book Performing Menken Renée M. Sentilles
Libristo code: 02033855
Publishers Cambridge University Press, July 2012
This book was first published in 2003. Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial... Full description
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This book was first published in 2003. Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. Menken managed to portray herself as both respectable and daring, claiming for herself various (differing) 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, p

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About the book

Full name Performing Menken
Author Renée M. Sentilles
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2012
Number of pages 326
EAN 9780521527606
ISBN 0521527600
Libristo code 02033855
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Weight 48
Dimensions 152 x 229 x 19

Categories

Place qualifiers > The Americas > North America (USA & Canada) > United States of America, USA
Biography, Literature & Literary studies > Biography & non-fiction prose > Biography: general > Biography: arts & entertainment
The Arts > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers
The Arts > Performing arts > Theatre studies
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