James R Lehning

The Melodramatic Thread

Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By concentrating on the Republic and the Revolution and on theatrical performance, Lehning affirms the importance of examining the performative aspects of French political culture for understanding the political differences that have marked France in the years since 1789.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780253219107
• ISBN-10: 0253219108
• Artikelnr.: 22303289

Autorenporträt

James R. Lehning is Professor of History at The University of Utah and author of To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic and Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Varieties of Performance in Nineteenth-Century Paris
3. Boulevard Spectacles of the Third Republic
4. Spectacles of Light and Darkness between the World Wars
5. Commercial Spectacles in Postwar Paris
6. Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index