A Field of Honor : Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution Hardback
by Gregory (Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Brown
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Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris.
Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment and contemporary cultural theory and criticism.
Drawing on a sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work against and between the grain of alternative approaches and interpretations.
He combines scholarship on the history of the book with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century "republic of letters."
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:387 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2005
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- ISBN:9780231124607
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:387 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:22/01/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780231124607
