Gender and religious life in French Revolutionary drama /
In the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this study, Annelle Curulla uses a range of archival material to show that, more than any other subject matter which was once forbidden from the French stage...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Passages in French translated to English. |
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Oxford, UK :
Voltaire Foundation,
[2018]
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2018:11. |
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| Summary: | In the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this study, Annelle Curulla uses a range of archival material to show that, more than any other subject matter which was once forbidden from the French stage, Roman Catholic religious life provided a crucial trope for expressing theatre's patriotic mission after 1789. Even as old rules and customs fell with the walls of the Bastille, dramatic works by Gouges, Chénier, La Harpe and others depicted the cloister as a space for reimagining forms of familial, individual and civic belonging and exclusion. By relating the dramatic trope of religious life to shifting concepts of gender, family, religiosity and nation, Curulla sheds light on how the process of secularisation played out in the cultural space of French theatre. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781786941404 1786941406 |
| ISSN: | 0435-2866 ; |