Over the past 20 years, the study of eighteenth-century British actresses has blossomed into an emerging interdisciplinary field. Early works on actresses in the 1990's coincided with a heightened interest in recovering non-canonical eighteenth-century texts by female authors as well as the publication of Judith Butler's ground breaking Gender Trouble in 1992. Actresses became, in many ways, the perfect vehicle for looking at how ideologies of femininity, performance, and embodiment materialized in eighteenth-century culture. The publication of Felicity Nussbaum's Rival Queens in 2010 signaled a new phase in actress studies. This article looks closely at the ways in which scholarship on eighteenth-century actresses and celebrity produced since 2010 responds to and/or complicates Nussbaum's invitation to move beyond the parameters of the lady/prostitute divide in actress studies towards more “productive frames of reference” and methodologies. In 2016, actress studies is a truly interdisciplinary field intersecting with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion. Scholars in actress studies have pioneered new theoretical approaches to theater history, archives and evidence, re-enactment and performance, as well as studies of sound and material culture. Studies of actresses have contributed significantly to the history of early modern women specifically focusing on maternity, professionalism, marriage, domestic life, and kinship networks. Considering “Actress Studies” as a distinct field highlights an important legacy of paradoxical ideologies about women, power, and fame that still operate today.

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舞台美女：18世纪漫长的女演员和名人文化

在过去的20年中，对18世纪英国女演员的研究已发展成为一个新兴的跨学科领域。1990年代早期女演员的创作与人们对恢复女性作家的非经典18世纪文本的浓厚兴趣以及1992年朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler）开创性的《性别问题》（Gender Trouble）的出版有关。在许多方面，女演员都成为了完美的手段。研究在18世纪文化中如何体现女性气质，表演和体现的意识形态。Felicity Nussbaum的Rival Queens于2010年出版，标志着女演员研究的新阶段。本文仔细研究了自2010年以来产生的有关18世纪女演员和名人的奖学金如何回应和/或使Nussbaum's复杂化 邀请超越女演员研究中的女士/妓女界限，转向更“富有成效的参考框架”和方法。在2016年，女演员研究是与艺术，音乐，文学，历史，经济学，心理学，人类学，社会学和时尚相交的真正跨学科领域。女演员研究的学者开创了戏剧历史，档案和证据，重演和表演以及声音和物质文化研究的新理论方法。女演员的研究对早期现代女性的历史做出了重要贡献，特别是侧重于产妇，职业，婚姻，家庭生活和血缘关系网络。将“女演员研究”视为一个独特的领域，突出了关于妇女，权力，