@article{ref1,
title="Alan's wife: Mother love and theatrical sociability in London of the 1890s",
journal="Modernism/modernity",
year="2004",
author="Kelly, K.E.",
volume="11",
number="3",
pages="539-560",
abstract="What appeared to some critics as gloomy, fin-de-siècle decadence preaching &quot;race suicide&quot; grew out of a vibrant set of flexible associations, including erotic love, fierce competition for rights to Ibsen's plays, loyal same-sex and other-sex friendships, maternal solicitude, and professional sponsorship. The modern mother, positioned between the forces of heredity, the subconscious, and a hostile industrial workplace, provided Robins and Bell with a set of references to their private lives and public postures on issues related to women's roles in a changing world that resonated with their Independent Theatre audiences and readers. Alan's Wife occupied a brief moment in the arrival of the London-based new drama, but its delivery offers striking evidence that theatre and paratheatre functioned as vehicles for modernist sociability.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1071-6068",
doi="10.1353/mod.2004.0058",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2004.0058"
}