Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity by Renée M. Sentilles

Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

Renée M. Sentilles

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This study relates the experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to the culture of the Civil War period which significantly affected her life achievements. The book explores the roots of the cult of celebrity that emerged fr...

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