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Tables of Contents for Notorious Muse
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vi
Colour plates
vii
Introduction
1
21
Robyn Asleson
`Painted Women': Reynolds and the Cult of the Courtesan
22
35
Martin Postle
Ambiguity and Desire: Metaphors of Sexuality in Late Eighteenth-Century Representation of the Actress
57
24
Gill Perry
Shakespeare and the Rival Muses: Siddons versus Jordan
81
23
Jonathan Bate
Costuming the Part: A Discourse of Fashion and Fiction in the Image of the Actress in England, 1776--1812
104
25
Aileen Ribeiro
The Ideal Shatters: Sarah Siddons, Madness, and the Dynamics of Gesture
129
22
Frederick Burwick
Body Connoisseurship
151
20
Shearer West
Painting, Politics and the Stage in the Age of Caricature
171
24
Heather McPherson
Patina: Mrs Siddons and the Depth of Surfaces
195
16
Joseph Roach
Notes on Contributors
211