Logan J. Connors

Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009431231
• Artikelnr.: 70910853

Autorenporträt

Logan 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.

Inhaltsangabe

List 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.