Epilogue

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface vii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. A Note on the Cover xii
7. Introduction: Setting the Stage – Views of Victorian Theatre 1
8. 1. An Actress’s Tears: Authenticity and the Reassertion of Social Class 36
9. 2. The Actress at Home: Domesticity, Respectability and the Disruption of Class Hierarchies 72
10. 3. The Actress and Her Audience: Performance, Authorship and the Exceptional Woman in George Eliot 106
11. 4. Novelistic Naturalism: ‘The Ideal Mother Cannot Be the Great Artist’ 146
12. 5. From Playing Parts to Rewriting Roles: Actresses and the Political Stage 173
13. Epilogue 226
14. Bibliography 229
15. Index 242