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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Charke"”.
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"A Stranger to the World": Women, Bisexuality, and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England
… of bisexuality and sexual fluidity in Charlotte Charke's A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft, and it reads each text through popular visual culture of the twenty-first century. Using the term bisexuality encourages a …
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Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing
… by (or about) Frances Burney (1778), Charlotte Charke (1755), Sarah Siddons (1834), Samuel Richardson (1748), and Samuel Jackson Pratt (1790), my dissertation offers to extend our understanding of the cultural discourses surrounding female expression by situating textual examples within their …
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Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education
<p>Actress studies has become “a truly interdisciplinary field” that “intersect[s] with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion” (Engel 752). While much scholarship has been conducted on the actress’ life, interaction with material culture, …