The Emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660–1740. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Logan J. Connors.
• Authors: Connors, Logan J
• Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: theater, emotions, science of man Diderot's relational drama From religious theaterphobia to theatrical innovation Affect, intentionality, and the history of emotions Chapter 1: Theaterphobia and the transformational power of performance Anti-theatrical criticism: goals and strategies Corneille, Nicole, and the reality of emotions Learning dangerously from the passions: Pierre Nicole's Traité de la comédie Debating theatrical emotions in the wake of Nicole's Traité Chapter 2: 'Que sur la superficie de notre cœur': Jean-Baptiste Dubos's theatrical emotions Emotional debates: past and present A different path to aesthetic appreciation The political case for pleasure Dubos's cognitive-affective sequences Chapter 3: Beyond affect: from Dubos's 'passions superficielles' to Houdar de La Motte's 'sentiments raisonnables' La Motte, the Querelle, and the Regency La Motte's 'sentiments raisonnables' The dramaturgical power of intérêt Chapter 4: From the page to the stage: La Motte's theatrical inquiry into the emotions Context and emotion in Les Macchabées (1721) Intentionality and suspense in Romulus (1722) Inès de Castro (1723) and the emotional politics of intérêt Chapter 5: Strategic passions: Marivaux's Moderne subjectivities Marivaux's trajectory from Moderne to bel esprit to scientist of man Learning from the 'organs': Marivaux's intuitive ethics Sentimental strategies: Marivaux's theories of emotion in Le Triomphe de l'amour (1732) Chapter 6: Learning through multiplicité: emotion and distance in the comédie larmoyante The decline and rebirth of Nivelle de La Chaussée's emotional poetics Meaning-making through the romanesque The pièce-cadre: emotion, multiplicité, and spectatorship in La Fausse Antipathie (1733) Conclusion: avant-gardes, emotion, and Enlightenment Works citedIndex.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Voltaire Foundation
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; History -- Europe -- France; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; History -- Modern -- 18th Century; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789622751
• Related ISBNs: 9781789620382
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