Nelly or Ellen? Revamping the first English actresses in contemporary popular culture
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| contents | Nelly or Ellen? Revamping the first English actresses in contemporary popular culture Laura Martínez-García Lengua y Literatura actress fiction identity Foucault sexuality The first British actresses have been th e focus of extensive scholarly study, transposing the boundaries of academic life and irrupting in popular culture and becoming a part of the public imagination and folklore. This paper studies the perception we have inheri ted of “Pretty, Witty Nell,” probably the best-known actress of the Restor ation, through the analysis of two novels—Priya Parmar’s Exit the Actress and Gillian Bagwell’s The Darling Strumpet —that reconstruct Gwyn’s life turn ing the “Protestant Whore” into a learned lady and a devoted mother. Th is revamping of her figure not only entails the erasure of the subversive po tential of actresses’ break with the public-masculine/private-feminine dichotomy, but it also works as an attempt at neutralizing the threat that these “public” women pose to the gender roles that became normative in the seventeenth century and that are still seen as such nowadays. 2017 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333553631010 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.27 |
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| spellingShingle | Nelly or Ellen? Revamping the first English actresses in contemporary popular culture Laura Martínez-García Lengua y Literatura actress fiction identity Foucault sexuality Nelly or Ellen? Revamping the first English actresses in contemporary popular culture Laura Martínez-García Lengua y Literatura actress fiction identity Foucault sexuality The first British actresses have been th e focus of extensive scholarly study, transposing the boundaries of academic life and irrupting in popular culture and becoming a part of the public imagination and folklore. This paper studies the perception we have inheri ted of “Pretty, Witty Nell,” probably the best-known actress of the Restor ation, through the analysis of two novels—Priya Parmar’s Exit the Actress and Gillian Bagwell’s The Darling Strumpet —that reconstruct Gwyn’s life turn ing the “Protestant Whore” into a learned lady and a devoted mother. Th is revamping of her figure not only entails the erasure of the subversive po tential of actresses’ break with the public-masculine/private-feminine dichotomy, but it also works as an attempt at neutralizing the threat that these “public” women pose to the gender roles that became normative in the seventeenth century and that are still seen as such nowadays. 2017 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333553631010 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.27 |
| title | Nelly or Ellen? Revamping the first English actresses in contemporary popular culture |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura actress fiction identity Foucault sexuality |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333553631010 |