{"product_id":"gender-and-religious-life-in-french-revolutionary-drama-9781786941404","title":"Gender and Religious Life in French Revolutionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this study, Annelle Curulla uses a range of archival material to show that, more than any other subject matter which was once forbidden from the French stage, Roman Catholic religious life provided a crucial trope for expressing theatre's patriotic mission after 1789.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven as old rules and customs fell with the walls of the Bastille, dramatic works by Gouges, Chénier, La Harpe, and others depicted the cloister as a space for reimagining forms of familial, individual, and civic belonging and exclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy relating the dramatic trope of religious life to shifting concepts of gender, family, religiosity, and nation, Curulla sheds light on how the process of secularization played out in the cultural space of French theatre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As well-written as it is meticulously researched, Annelle Curulla’s excellent first book not only illustrates the scholarly significance of Revolutionary theater, it also broadens our understanding of it.' \u003cbr\u003eYann Robert, \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: the cloister and the stage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorical contextApproaches and sources\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Theatrical vocations: La Harpe’s \u003ci\u003eMélanie, ou la Religieuse\u003c\/i\u003e (1770-1802)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMélanie\u003c\/i\u003e’s instability: revisions to the text (1770-1802)\u003ci\u003eMélanie\u003c\/i\u003e in the salonsFrom salon to stage: \u003ci\u003eMélanie\u003c\/i\u003e in the Revolution (1790-1792)Reviving Mélanie (1796-1802)Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Changing habits: the monastic trope as secularisation, 1790 and 1791\u003c\/b\u003ePrisoners of the cloth: impossible love in monastic dramaTaking it off: secularisation as comedyOver the line? Plays that failedConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Dramaturgies of the cloister in \u003ci\u003eLes Victimes cloîtrées\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePlaces of the forgotten: legends of monastic prisonsThe origins of the double sceneReading the double sceneConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Mother–daughter plots in monastic drama\u003c\/b\u003eThe pregnant nun in D’Alembert’s \u003ci\u003eEloge de Fléchier\u003c\/i\u003e (1778)From sentimental to Gothic motherhood: Pougens’s \u003ci\u003eJulie, ou la Religieuse de Nîmes\u003c\/i\u003eMaternal heroism in Olympe de GougesRepublican family values: Chénier’s \u003ci\u003eFénelon, ou les Religieuses de Cambrai\u003c\/i\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Brotherly orders: soldiers, monks and libertines in monastic comedy\u003c\/b\u003ePersistent libertines: \u003ci\u003eLes Visitandines\u003c\/i\u003eBrotherhood or else:\u003ci\u003e La Partie carrée\u003c\/i\u003ePigault-Lebrun: fraternity between the sexesConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: lessons of the cloister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAppendix 1: examples of the monastic trope in Revolutionary dramaAppendix 2: bibliography of printed examples of the monastic trope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042492350807,"sku":"9781786941404","price":98.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786941404.jpg?v=1750954365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-and-religious-life-in-french-revolutionary-drama-9781786941404","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}