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A field of honor : writers, court culture and public theater in French literary life from Racine to the Revolution
- Title
- A field of honor : writers, court culture and public theater in French literary life from Racine to the Revolution / Gregory S. Brown.
- Author
- Brown, Gregory S. (Gregory Stephen)
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
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- Description
- 387 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine t othe 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.
- Alternative Title
- Writers, court culture and public theater in French literary life from Racine to the Revolution
- Subjects
- Note
- "This text is not a substitute for or facsimile of the online version of this work"--P. opp. t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-387).
- Call Number
- JFE 06-7530
- ISBN
- 0231124600
- LCCN
- 2004400155
- OCLC
- 52191484
- Author
- Brown, Gregory S. (Gregory Stephen)
- Title
- A field of honor : writers, court culture and public theater in French literary life from Racine to the Revolution / Gregory S. Brown.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-387).
- Added Author
- Columbia University. Press.American Historical Society.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-7530