Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary Drama. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Annelle Curulla.
• Authors: Curulla, Annelle
• Contents: Introduction: the cloister and the stage Historical contextApproaches and sources 1. Theatrical vocations: La Harpe's Mélanie, ou la Religieuse (1770-1802)Mélanie's instability: revisions to the text (1770-1802)Mélanie in the salonsFrom salon to stage: Mélanie in the Revolution (1790-1792)Reviving Mélanie (1796-1802)Conclusion 2. Changing habits: the monastic trope as secularisation, 1790 and 1791Prisoners of the cloth: impossible love in monastic dramaTaking it off: secularisation as comedyOver the line? Plays that failedConclusion 3. Dramaturgies of the cloister in Les Victimes cloîtréesPlaces of the forgotten: legends of monastic prisonsThe origins of the double sceneReading the double sceneConclusion 4. Mother–daughter plots in monastic dramaThe pregnant nun in D'Alembert's Eloge de Fléchier (1778)From sentimental to Gothic motherhood: Pougens's Julie, ou la Religieuse de NîmesMaternal heroism in Olympe de GougesRepublican family values: Chénier's Fénelon, ou les Religieuses de CambraiConclusion 5. Brotherly orders: soldiers, monks and libertines in monastic comedyPersistent libertines: Les VisitandinesBrotherhood or else: La Partie carréePigault-Lebrun: fraternity between the sexesConclusion Conclusion: lessons of the cloister Appendix 1: examples of the monastic trope in Revolutionary dramaAppendix 2: bibliography of printed examples of the monastic trope Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Voltaire Foundation
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: Literary theory; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; European history; French Revolution; Religion & beliefs; Gender studies, gender groups; History -- Europe -- France; History -- Modern -- 18th Century; Literary Criticism -- European -- French; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789624434
• Related ISBNs: 9781786941404
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