Gregory S Brown

Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793

Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book focuses on the first professional association for creative writers in European history. Brown traces how Beaumarchais led this group's fight for literary property legislation and worked to raise the status of men of letters. This study focuses on the form and meaning of eighteenth-century literary sociability, at the intersection of political reform, commercial theater, and writers' anxieties about their public identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780754603863
• ISBN-10: 0754603865
• Artikelnr.: 44789799

Autorenporträt

Gregory Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He is author of A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution and The French Revolution: Cultures in Conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction: Men of letters and literary sociability in 18th-century France
An association of men of letters: the formation of the Society of Dramatic Authors
Beaumarchais at court: on the civility and cultural power of Gens de lettres
Playwrights, print and publicity: the success and failure of the SAD in 1780
Literary sociability and the Revolution: social interests, politics and literary property, July 1789-January 1791
From liberty to patriotism
Conclusion: copyright, community and enlightenment
Select bibliography
Index.