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.
| ISBN: | 9781009431217 |
| Publication date: | 23rd November 2023 |
| Author: | Logan J Connors |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 276 pages |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 European history Military history |
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.
Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, European history, Military history
Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire is available in Hardback
Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire was written by Logan J Connors and published by Cambridge University Press
Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire has 276 pages
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