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Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France: Philosophes, Anti-Philosophes and Polemical Theatre

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By (author): Logan J. Connors

The mid-eighteenth century witnessed a particularly intense conflict between the Enlightenment philosophes and their enemies, when intellectual and political confrontation became inseparable from a battle for public opinion. Logan J. Connors underscores the essential role that theatre played in these disputes.

This is a fascinating and detailed study of the dramatic arm of Frances war of ideas in which the author examines how playwrights sought to win public support by controlling every aspect of theatrical production from advertisements, to performances, to criticism. An expanding theatre-going public was recognised as both a force of influence and a force worth influencing.

By analysing the most indicative examples of Frances polemical theatre of the period, Les Philosophes by Charles Palissot (1760) and Voltaires Le Café ou LEcossaise (1760), Connors explores the emergence of spectators as active agents in French society, and shows how theatre achieved an unrivalled status as a cultural weapon on the eve of the French Revolution. Adopting a holistic approach, Connors provides an original view of how theatre productions worked under the ancien régime, and discusses how a specific polemical atmosphere in the eighteenth century gave rise to modern notions of reception and spectatorship. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jul 2012
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780729410472

About Logan J. Connors

Logan J. Connors is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. His next research project investigates connections between theater and the military in France and its colonies from 1680 to 1815.

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