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Performing Menken

Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Hardback
Book Performing Menken Renée M. Sentilles
Libristo code: 02045123
Publishers Cambridge University Press, May 2003
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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Full name Performing Menken
Language English
Binding Book - Hardback
Date of issue 2003
Number of pages 326
EAN 9780521820707
ISBN 0521820707
Libristo code 02045123
Weight 598
Dimensions 152 x 229 x 22
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