Reading drama in Eighteenth-Century France

• Verfasst von: Wynn, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Reading drama in Eighteenth-Century France
• Verf.angabe: Thomas Wynn
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 252 Seiten
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889532-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Französisch / (s)Lesedrama / (z)Geschichte 1701-1800
• Schlagwörter: (s)Französisch / (s)Lesedrama / (g)Frankreich / (s)Lektüre / (z)Geschichte 1701-1800
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: IG 1117
• RVK-Notation: IG 1621
• K10plus-PPN: 1883153662

Abstract

Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama: plays that were never performed within the playhouse. Drawing on queer theory, Wynn argues that eighteenth-century closet reading fostered disruptive pleasures that imparted another side to the period's 'théâtromanie'.

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: In and Out of Voltaire's Closet -- PART I. WAYS OF READING -- 1. Théâtromanie and Reading -- 2. The Enlightenment Closet -- 3. Closeted Reading -- 4. Reading the Mercure in the Closet -- PART II. CLOSET DRAMA -- 5. Religious Controversy -- 6. Historical Drama -- 7. Erotic Drama -- Conclusion: In and Out of Restif de la Bretonne's Closet -- Bibliography -- Index.