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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Logan J. Connors (University of Miami)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Weight: 0.545kg ISBN: 9781009431217ISBN 10: 1009431218 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 23 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList 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.Reviews'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 'Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire makes a major contribution to Enlightenment and French Revolution studies, as well as to the broader domains of theater history and performance studies. While it expertly exploits the most recent scholarly advances in the arenas of performance practices, gender studies, and colonial francophone world studies, it also proposes an original reading of the interface between the military and theater at a crucial moment in the history of both European war-making and theatrical aesthetics.' Larry Norman, University of Chicago Author InformationLogan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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