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Stagestruck
Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater's spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout Fr...
French Emigration to Great Britain in Response to the French Revolution
This book examines diverse encounters between the British community and the thousands of French individuals who sought haven in the British Isles as they left revolutionary and Imperial France. This painstaking research into the emigrant archival and memorial presence in Britain uncovers a wealth of underused and alternative sources on this controversial population displacement. These include open letters and classified advertisements published in British newspapers, insurance contracts, as well as lists of addresses and passports drawn up by local authorities. These sources question the construction by British loyalists and French émigré elites of a stereotyped emigrant figure and their u...
Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
This book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. The initial return – known as ‘the flight of the eagle’ – gradually turned into a dogged attempt to bolster support using a range of mechanisms, including constitutional amendments, elections, and public ceremonies. At the same time, his opponents had to marshal their resources to challenge his return, relying on populations already war-weary and resentful of the costs they had had to bear. The contributors to this volume explore how, for both sides, cultural politics became central in supporting or challenging the legitimacy of these political orders in the path to Waterloo.
Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité
Les théâtres du passé : des théâtres virtuels ? C’est une des questions passionnantes explorée dans ce livre par des chercheurs et chercheuses en littérature, musicologie, histoire, études théâtrales, histoire de l’art, architecture et sciences du numérique. Ces Nouvelles études sur les lieux de spectacle de la première modernité proposent de relever un défi épistémologique autour de la notion de virtuel pour la recherche en histoire du théâtre en engageant différents formats de réflexion : entretiens, articles multimédia, brèves de méthodologie, exposition virtuelle. L’objectif de ce volume est de situer le lieu de spectacle aussi largement que possible au carr...
Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and its Empire
The first study of French theater and war at a time of global revolutions, colonial violence, and radical social transformation.
La scène bâtarde
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Un siècle de journalisme culturel
En onze contributions, ce recueil analyse les pratiques du journalisme culturel dans la province français, au cours du siècle qui suit la création en 1785 du Journal de Rouen. S'inscrivant dans une tradition encyclopédique et dominée par une activité théâtrale souvent intense, la chrnoque de l'actualité culturelle cherche à promouvoir, à travers es auteurs, des oeuvres ou des événements, la production intellectuelle locale. Mais elle constitue aussi, sans spécialisation rédactionelle affirmée et avant la loi de 1881 sur la liberté de la presse, un moyen d'échapper aux tentatives du pouvoir d'instrumentaliser la culture et de faire passer, malgré la censure, des idées nouvelles et une critique social ou politique sous couvert de gazette des spectacles ou d'articles d'érudition.
Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue
The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean. This book examines the relationship between public theatre and the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue—something that is generally given short shrift owing to a perceived lack of documentation. Here, a range of materials and methodologies are used to explore pressing questions including the ‘mitigated spectatorship’ of the enslaved, portrayals of enslaved people in French and Creole repertoire, the contributions of enslaved people to theatre-making, and shifting attitudes during the revolutionary era. The book demonstrates that slavery was no mere backdrop to this portion of theatre history but an integral part of its story. It also helps recover the hidden experiences of some of the enslaved individuals who became entangled in that story.
Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment
This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.
