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The Art of the Actress: Fashioning Identities (Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections) by Laura Engel is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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This Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It considers how visual materials across genres, such as prints, portraits, sculpture, costumes, and accessories, contribute to the understanding of the nuances of female celebrity, fame, notoriety, and scandal. The 'art' of the actress refers to the actress represented in visual art, as well as to the actress's labor and skill in making art ephemerally through performance and tangibly through objects. Moving away from the c
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- Author
- Laura Engel
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781009486811
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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