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A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Primogeniture in French Neoclassical Tragedy [electronic resource] : The Literary Politics Behind the French Revolution
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worley, Sharon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and theater--France--History.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Theater and the revolution.
- French drama--18th century--History and criticism.
- French drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- French drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Heroines in literature.
- Neoclassicism (Art)--France.
- Neoclassicism (Literature)--France.
- Primogeniture in literature.
- Women and literature--France--History.
- French drama--History and criticism--18th century--France.
- French drama.
- French drama--History and criticism--19th century--France.
- French drama--History and criticism--Women authors--France.
- Heroines in literature--History--France.
- Primogeniture in literature--History.
- Neoclassicism (Literature).
- Neoclassicism (Art).
- Women and literature.
- Feminism and theater.
- France.
- Local Subjects:
- Feminism and theater--France--History.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Theater and the revolution.
- French drama--18th century--History and criticism.
- French drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- French drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Heroines in literature.
- Neoclassicism (Art)--France.
- Neoclassicism (Literature)--France.
- Primogeniture in literature.
- Women and literature--France--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Feminist Analysis of Gender and Primogeniture in French Neoclassical Tragedy
- A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Primogeniture in French Neoclassical Tragedy
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the tradition of Virginia Woolf's "In Search of a Room of One's Own," this study traces the origins of French feminism to Neoclassical theatre and the court of Louis XIV. Through feminist revisionist histories of French literature, the Neoclassical plots and female archetypes from Racine's Phedre and Andromache, Voltaire's Brutus (Catherine Bernard) and Marmontel's Belisarius (Stephanie Genlis) were transposed by women writers and patrons onto actresses and the queens, empresses and mistresses of the French ruling dynasties from Louis XIV- to Napoleon at a time when women were denied the ri
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Abstract; Illustrations List; Foreword by Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval; Introduction; Chapter One: Olympe de Gouges and Marie-Joseph Chénier: Gender and Feminism in Tandem with the Parabola of Revolutionary Politics and French Theatre; Chapter Two: Brutus : The Republican Reversal of Patrician Privilege and the Sublimation of Feminist Political Power
- Chapter Three: Setting the Feminist Stage: Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis's and Marmontel's Versions of Belisarius and the Historicism of Revolutionary Politics and Drama in the Future of EmpireChapter Four: Gender and Primogeniture in Racine's Andromaque: The Politics of Power, Women, and the State; Chapter Five: Racine's Phédre as the Criminalized Femme Fatale: Political Representation and the Disjunctive Female Spectator; Chapter Six: Iphigénie: Sacrifice as the Consummation of Dynasty and the Inversion of Female Automnomy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1144-5
- OCLC:
- 796383901
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