Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

About this book

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of "play" in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the "Age of Reason," providing ways for its practitioners to consider more "serious" themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.

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Yes, you can access Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France by Fayçal Falaky, Reginald McGinnis, Fayçal Falaky,Reginald McGinnis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & French History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales
  9. 2. The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language
  10. 3. Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
  11. 4. Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost
  12. 5. Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’s Relation du monde de Mercure
  13. 6. The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera
  14. 7. Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société
  15. 8. Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution
  16. 9. The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater
  17. 10. Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Bibliography
  20. Notes on Contributors
  21. Index