Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France
Awards:   Winner of Commended by the Society for French Studies for the R. Gapper Book Prize.
Author:   Joseph Harris (Senior Lecturer in French, Senior Lecturer in French, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198701613


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France


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  • Winner of Commended by the Society for French Studies for the R. Gapper Book Prize.

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Author:   Joseph Harris (Senior Lecturer in French, Senior Lecturer in French, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.496kg
ISBN:  

9780198701613


ISBN 10:   0198701616
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Subjectivity and the senses: from deceit to enthralment 2: D'Aubignac: the rationalist spectator 3: Corneille: the indulgent spectator 4: Narrative pleasures: from intellect to emotion 5: Dubos: the contemplative spectator 6: Between interest and identification 7: Rousseau: the alienated spectator 8: Beyond domesticity: Diderot and the drame Epilogue: the decline of the spectator

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this is a subtle, well-argued and scholarly account of early modern France's response to a highly complex set of questions that are still resonant today. Julia Prest, The Times Literary Supplement


Author Information

Joseph Harris is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, particularly drama, and is the author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (Tübingen: 2005). His research interests include gender and sexuality; the prehistory of psychology; laughter; and dramatic spectatorship. He is editor of a volume of Nottingham French Studies entitled 'Identification Before Freud: French Perspectives'. He is currently working on a project on death and murder in Corneille's theatre.

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