Politics and theater : the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 / Sheryl Kroen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kroen, Sheryl, 1961-

Series:

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 40.

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molière, 1622-1673. Tartuffe--Influence.

Molière.

Legitimacy of governments--France.

Legitimacy of governments.

Monarchy--France--History--19th century.

Monarchy.

Democracy--France--History--19th century.

Democracy.

France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830--Political aspects.

France.

France--History--July Revolution, 1830--Theater and the revolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 394 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views post revolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820's to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitimacy defining the regime in these years and demonstrates how the people of the time made steps toward a democratic resolution to this crisis. Moving from the town squares, where state and ecclesiastical officials orchestrated their public spectacles in favor of the monarchy, to the theaters, where the French used Tartuffe to mock the restored monarch and the church, this cultural history of the Restoration offers a rich and colorful portrait of a period in which critical legacies of the revolutionary period were played out and cemented. While most historians have characterized the Restoration as a period of reaction and reversal, Kroen offers convincing evidence that the Restoration was a critical bridge between the emerging practices of the Old Regime, the Revolution, and the post-1830 politics of protest. She re-creates the atmosphere of Restoration France and at the same time brings major nineteenth-century themes into focus: memory and commemoration, public and private spheres, politics and religion, anticlericalism, and the formation of democratic ideologies and practices.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Staging Monarchy in a Post revolutionary World

1. The "Counterrevolutionary" State and the Politics of Oubli (Forgetting)

2. The Missionaries: Expiation and the Resacralization of the King's Two Bodies

3. Competing Commemorations: The Problem of Performing Monarchy

4. "Practicing" Politics in an Age of Counterrevolution

5. Popular Anticlericalism: Defining the Sacred in Post revolutionary France

6. Tartufferie

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-385) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520924383

052092438X

9781597348157

1597348155

OCLC:

475928120