Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This is the first study of French theater and war at a time of global revolutions, colonial violence, and radical social transformation. Analyzing France and its largest Caribbean colony (Saint-Domingue), and spanning the Old Regime and Revolution, Logan Connors presents an ambitious, richly interdisciplinary argument, grounded in theater and performance studies, literary analysis of drama, and cultural, military, and gender history. Demonstrating how war and soldiering catalyzed new drama types and fostered theater's expansion into France's geographical and social peripheries, the study also shows how theater emerged as a dynamic space in which military practices could be re-imagined. This major scholarly intervention provides unparalleled insight into theater's engagement with international and domestic war efforts during a transformational period in global history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009431217

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Militärhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Logan J. Connors is Professor and Chair of the Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, where he also serves as Co-convener of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Theatre and Performance Studies and Cooper Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Recensioner i media

'This is a genuinely rich, compelling, and informative study, which offers an appealing and informative perspective of its own while also inviting future research. The topic has long been overlooked by both theater experts and military historians, yet Connors demonstrates that it is an immensely rich and rewarding line of exploration. His book stands to make an important mark on the fields of both military history and eighteenth-century theater, but it also holds transformative insight for students of the eighteenth century, the Revolution, and colonialism.' Joseph Harris, University of London

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: performance, revolution, and the military-theatrical complex; 1. From tragédie nationale to pièce militaire: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy's Le Siège de Calais; 2. Military masculinities, dramaturgical manipulation, and the desertion play; 3. Performing on the periphery: Military-theatrical experiences at the Théâtre de la Marine (Brest) and the Comédie du Cap (Cap-Français); 4. Total theater for total war: military dramas and performances of the French revolution; 5. Femmes soldats and militarized domesticity: women at war in French revolutionary theater; Conclusion: the military-theatrical complex of revolutionary Saint-Domingue; Bibliography; Index.