Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France - Hardcover
by Holly Grout
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Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807181782ISBN-10:807181781UPC:9780807181782Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Women, Gender StudiesBook Topic:FranceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC6B5V3B9X
Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France
Questions about the meaning of womanhood and femininity loomed large in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture. In Playing Cleopatra, Holly Grout uses the theater--specifically, Parisian stage performances of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra by Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker--to explore these cultural and political debates. How and why did portrayals of Cleopatra...
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807181782ISBN-10:807181781UPC:9780807181782Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Women, Gender StudiesBook Topic:FranceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC6B5V3B9X
Holly Grout is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Beauty in the Third Republic.
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