Gender and religious life in French Revolutionary drama /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Curulla, Annelle (Author)
Corporate Author:	Voltaire Foundation
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Passages in French translated to English.
Published:	[Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2018]
Series:	Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2018:11
Subjects:	Literary theory. Literary studies: plays & playwrights. European history. French Revolution. Religion & beliefs. Gender studies, gender groups. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. History > Europe > France. History > Modern > 18th Century. Literary Criticism > European > French. French drama Secularism France 1700-1799 Electronic books. Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Item Description:	Introduction: the cloister and the stage Historical contextApproaches and sources 1. Theatrical vocations: La Harpe's Mélanie, ou la Religieuse (1770-1802)Mélanie's instability: revisions to the text (1770-1802)Mélanie in the salonsFrom salon to stage: Mélanie in the Revolution (1790-1792)Reviving Mélanie (1796-1802)Conclusion 2. Changing habits: the monastic trope as secularisation, 1790 and 1791Prisoners of the cloth: impossible love in monastic dramaTaking it off: secularisation as comedyOver the line? Plays that failedConclusion 3. Dramaturgies of the cloister in Les Victimes cloîtréesPlaces of the forgotten: legends of monastic prisonsThe origins of the double sceneReading the double sceneConclusion 4. Mother-daughter plots in monastic dramaThe pregnant nun in D'Alembert's Eloge de Fléchier (1778)From sentimental to Gothic motherhood: Pougens's Julie, ou la Religieuse de NîmesMaternal heroism in Olympe de GougesRepublican family values: Chénier's Fénelon, ou les Religieuses de CambraiConclusion 5. Brotherly orders: soldiers, monks and libertines in monastic comedyPersistent libertines: Les VisitandinesBrotherhood or else: La Partie carréePigault-Lebrun: fraternity between the sexesConclusion Conclusion: lessons of the cloister Appendix 1: examples of the monastic trope in Revolutionary dramaAppendix 2: bibliography of printed examples of the monastic trope Bibliography Index.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781789624434 1789624436
ISSN:	0435-2866 ;