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Politics and theater : the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 / / Sheryl Kroen



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Autore: Kroen Sheryl <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Politics and theater : the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 / / Sheryl Kroen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 394 pages)
Disciplina: 944.06
Soggetto topico: Legitimacy of governments - France
Monarchy - France - History - 19th century
Democracy - France - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: France History Restoration, 1814-1830 Political aspects
France History July Revolution, 1830 Theater and the revolution
Soggetto non controllato: anticlerical comedy
anticlericalism
clerics
comedy
cultural history
cultural studies
dauphin
democracy
ecclesiastical officials
europe
french catholicism
french comedy
french history
french revolution
government
history
king
monarchy
political engagement
political legitimacy
politics
postrevolutionary france
protest
public spectacles
regime
reign
religion
representative government
republic
restoration
restored monarch
revolutionary period
satire
social commentary
tartuffe
theatricality
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-385) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Staging Monarchy in a Post revolutionary World -- 1. The "Counterrevolutionary" State and the Politics of Oubli (Forgetting) -- 2. The Missionaries: Expiation and the Resacralization of the King's Two Bodies -- 3. Competing Commemorations: The Problem of Performing Monarchy -- 4. "Practicing" Politics in an Age of Counterrevolution -- 5. Popular Anticlericalism: Defining the Sacred in Post revolutionary France -- 6. Tartufferie -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views post revolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820's to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitimacy defining the regime in these years and demonstrates how the people of the time made steps toward a democratic resolution to this crisis. Moving from the town squares, where state and ecclesiastical officials orchestrated their public spectacles in favor of the monarchy, to the theaters, where the French used Tartuffe to mock the restored monarch and the church, this cultural history of the Restoration offers a rich and colorful portrait of a period in which critical legacies of the revolutionary period were played out and cemented. While most historians have characterized the Restoration as a period of reaction and reversal, Kroen offers convincing evidence that the Restoration was a critical bridge between the emerging practices of the Old Regime, the Revolution, and the post-1830 politics of protest. She re-creates the atmosphere of Restoration France and at the same time brings major nineteenth-century themes into focus: memory and commemoration, public and private spheres, politics and religion, anticlericalism, and the formation of democratic ideologies and practices.
Titolo autorizzato: Politics and theater  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-92438-X
1-59734-815-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780080703321
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Serie: Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 40.