Table of Contents:
  • Post-Revolutionary notions of nationhood : Susanna Haswell Rowsons' Slaves in Algiers / Kristen Kaye Thoen
  • Louisa Medina, uncrowned queen of melodrama / Miriam López Rodríguez
  • Early American women's romantic tragedies and the rhetoric of republicanism : the case of Charlotte Barne's Octavia Bragaldi / Zoé Desti-Diamanti
  • Charlotte Barnes / Rebecca Dunn Jaroff
  • Margaret fuller as theatre critic / Amelia Howe Kritzer
  • Anna Cora Mowatt / Marilyn Shapiro
  • "Into more than one path" : Kate Field as critic, actress, and playwright / Pere Gifra Adroher
  • Nineteenth-century women going beyond the gates of the personal : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Within the gates / María Dolores Narbona Carrión
  • On the far-western scene : actress-manager Nellie Boyd and the nineteenth-century frontier / Eliana Crestani
  • Two Camilles, Matilde Heron and Clara Morris / Bonnie Eckard
  • From private prostitute to public new woman : the actress in the fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis / Ruth Stoner
  • If you love me, leave me alone : the life of actress Maude Adams / Yvonne Shafer.