Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain and Beyond(Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. Female managers, playwrights, and performers emerge from the archives to forge geographical and temporal “intertheatricalities” with contemporary productions by women who revisit and re-stage the period and with neo-Victorian fiction written by women and inspired by Victorian stage practices and spectacle. Chapters navigate from Great Britain to Australia, from Japan to the United States, to offer a glimpse of the indisputable influence of women in the theatrical scene of the period. The women who populate this book—Joanna Baillie, Florence Wilson, Ritsuko Mori, Emily Massingberd, Louisa Maria Ann Cremer (Mrs. T. P. Cooke), Minnie Maddern Fiske, Lolita Chakrabarti, Kip Williams, and others—reveal essential histories of nineteenth-century spectacle that hold significant implications for the roles of gender and chronology in theatre and English studies. This book is for postgraduates, researchers, and academics engaged primarily with English Studies, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Women Studies.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Emptied Spaces Laura Monrós-Gaspar & Victoria Puchal Terol PART I. From the nineteenth into the twentieth century Staging the Invisible: Reclaiming the Silenced Woman in Joanna Baillie’s The Bride Miriam Borham-Puyal Mrs. T. P. Cooke: A (Forgotten) Lady of Great Accomplishments Victoria Puchal Terol Staging a Victorian Marriage: Ellen Terry’s Lady Macbeth Sarah McCarroll Performing Management Through Her Pen: Minnie Madden Fiske as Producer and Activist Amanda Nelson Beyond Postcolonial Theatre Historiography: British Theatrical Migration and the Eyes of the Japanese Actress Ayumi Fujioka Emily Caroline Massingberd: Women’s Theatrical Networks at the Pioneer Club omen’s Clubs and Drama: Emily Massingberd at the Pioneer Club Laura Monrós-Gaspar PART II. From the twentieth into the twenty-first century Women and the Nineteenth Century at the National Theatre of London (1963-2018) Sarai Ramos Cedrés Re-membering the Nineteenth-century English Stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet (2012): A Neo-Victorian Reading Ana Fernández-Caparrós Nineteenth-Century Caring in Contemporary Biodrama: Acts of Care in The Ballad of Maria Marten and Marys Seacole Beth Palmer Bruising Encounters: Neo-Victorian Group Narratives by Women Playwrights Benjamin Poore Two Pictures of Dorian Gray Victoria Duckett Staging Networked Perspectives and Structures of Care in Barbara Ewing’s The Mesmerist Rosario Arias-Doblas Powerful Women and Assembled Bodily Strength in Neo-Victorian Novels of Spectacle Lin Pettersson Reframing Lizzie: The Many Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal in Neo-Victorian Culture Cristina Santaemilia

About the Author :
Laura Monros-Gaspar is Full Professor in English Literature at the Universitat de Valencia in Spain, where she leads the “Literature, Arts and Performance” Research Group and the “Women Staging and Re-Staging” projects. She is Research Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at the University of Oxford, secretary of the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Society in Spain (VINS) and collaborates with the ChoRuS Reception Scholarship network. She is founder and General Editor of the series Encuentros: Cultura y Literatura at PUV and has translated Florence Nightingale’s essay “Cassandra” into Spanish. Victoria Puchal Terol holds a PhD in English Language, Literature and Culture from the Universitat de Valencia (2020). Her main lines of research are nineteenth-century popular theatre and gender and cultural studies. She is a full-time lecturer at Valencian International University (VIU), where she is also the Head of the English and Spanish specialisations at the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training. Puchal is a member of the Research Group “Literature, Arts and Performance” at Universitat de Valencia (GIUV2017‑354), and part of the Literary Assemblage Project (RELY).