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  1. Women's deliberation
    the heroine in early modern French women's theater (1650-1750)
    Author: Kennedy, Theresa Varney
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abington, Oxon

    This book argues that women playwrights question traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays by... more

     

    This book argues that women playwrights question traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays by leading male playwrights from this period. Women playwrights, on the other hand, embraced the ideas necessary to expand the boundaries of female heroism. Heroines in plays from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries reflect a shift in mentalities toward rationality and female agency. I argue that the "deliberative heroine," emerging at the dawn of the eighteenth century, is the most fully developed, exuding all the characteristics of the modern-day heroine. Although she embodies many of the qualities of her heroine counterparts, she also responds to them. Only the deliberative heroine, based on Enlightenment ideals-such as women's ability to rationalize and the complex interplay between reason and sentiment-truly liberates female characters from a history of traditional roles. Whereas other heroines act in accordance with social construct or on impulse, the "deliberative heroine" realizes the ideals of the seventeenth-century salons that petitioned for women to have "greater control over their own bodies" (DeJean 21). She is active, and her determination to follow through with her own line of reasoning-that involves both mind and heart-enables her to determine the outcome of events. In the end, this new generation of heroines ushered in an era where women playwrights could make their own contribution to dramatic works at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment

     
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  2. A feminist analysis of gender and primogeniture in French neoclassical tragedy
    the literary politics behind the French Revolution
    Author: Worley, Sharon
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York [u.a.]

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Subjects: French drama / 18th century / History and criticism; French drama / 19th century / History and criticism; French drama / Women authors / History and criticism; Heroines in literature; Primogeniture in literature; Neoclassicism (Literature) / France; Neoclassicism (Art) / France; Women and literature / France / History; Feminism and theater / France / History; Geschichte; Frau; Französisch; Primogenitur <Motiv>; Tragödie
    Scope: x, 282 pages, [12] leaves of plates, [30] pages of plates, illustrations (some color), 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Olympe de Gouges and Marie-Joseph Chenier : gender and feminism in tandem with the parabola of revolutionary politics and French theatre -- Brutus : the Republican reversal of patrician privilege and the sublimation of feminist political power -- Setting the feminist stage : Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis's and Marmontel's versions of Belisarius and the historicism of revolutionary politics and drama in the future of Empire -- Gender and primogeniture in Racine's Andromaque : the politics of power, women and the state -- Racine's Phedre as the criminalized femme fatale : political representation and the disjunctive female spectator -- Iphigenie : sacrifice as the consummation of dynasty and the inversion of female autonomy
  3. French theatre, orientalism, and the representation of India, 1770-1865
    India lost and regained
    Author: Hammerbeck, David
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    "This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented India to the French viewing public but also staged issues within French culture including colonialism, imperialism, race,... more

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    "This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented India to the French viewing public but also staged issues within French culture including colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, and national politics. Through examining these texts and available performance history, and incorporating historical texts and cultural theory, David Hammerback analyses these works to illustrate a complex of cultural representations: some contested Orientalism, some participated in Western colonialist discourses, while some can be placed somewhere between these two markers of ideology in Western culture and the arts. He also assesses the works which participated in shaping the theatrical face of Western hegemony, ones directly participating in Orientalism as delineated by Edward Said and others. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, French literature, history and cultural studies"--

     
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  4. French theatre, orientalism, and the representation of India, 1770-1865
    India lost and regained
    Author: Hammerbeck, David
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
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  5. A feminist analysis of gender and primogeniture in French neoclassical tragedy
    the literary politics behind the French Revolution
    Author: Worley, Sharon
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0773411445; 9780773411449
    Subjects: Feminism and theater / France / History; France / History / Revolution, 1789-1799 / Theater and the revolution; French drama / 18th century / History and criticism; French drama / 19th century / History and criticism; French drama / Women authors / History and criticism; Neoclassicism (Art) / France; Neoclassicism (Literature) / France; Women and literature / France / History; Literature; DRAMA / Continental European; Geschichte; Literatur; French drama; French drama; French drama; Heroines in literature; Primogeniture in literature; Neoclassicism (Literature); Neoclassicism (Art); Women and literature; Feminism and theater; Französisch; Tragödie; Frau; Primogenitur <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (338 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Olympe de Gouges and Marie-Joseph Chenier : gender and feminism in tandem with the parabola of revolutionary politics and French theatre -- Brutus : the Republican reversal of patrician privilege and the sublimation of feminist political power -- Setting the feminist stage : Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis's and Marmontel's versions of Belisarius and the historicism of revolutionary politics and drama in the future of Empire -- Gender and primogeniture in Racine's Andromaque : the politics of power, women and the state -- Racine's Phedre as the criminalized femme fatale : political representation and the disjunctive female spectator -- Iphigenie : sacrifice as the consummation of dynasty and the inversion of female autonomy

    In the tradition of Virginia Woolf's "In Search of a Room of One's Own," this study traces the origins of French feminism to Neoclassical theatre and the court of Louis XIV. Through feminist revisionist histories of French literature, the Neoclassical plots and female archetypes from Racine's Phedre and Andromache, Voltaire's Brutus (Catherine Bernard) and Marmontel's Belisarius (Stephanie Genlis) were transposed by women writers and patrons onto actresses and the queens, empresses and mistresses of the French ruling dynasties from Louis XIV- to Napoleon at a time when women were denied the ri
  6. French theatre, orientalism, and the representation of India, 1770-1865
    India lost and regained
    Author: Hammerbeck, David
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

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    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
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