Yale French Studies, Number 130: Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France (Yale French Studies Series)

ISBN 10: 0300221630 / ISBN 13: 9780300221633

Published by Yale University Press, 2017

About this Item

Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Seller Inventory # M0300221630Z3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yale French Studies, Number 130: Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France (Yale French Studies Series)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300221630
• ISBN 13: 9780300221633
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality in seventeenth-century France

Although the Catholic Church condemned the power of plays to stir up compelling and irresistible passions, theater flourished in seventeenth-century France, making it the era’s archetypal guilty pleasure. Bringing together specialists on theater and early modern culture from the United States, Britain, and France, the editors approach the intersections of morality, theater, guilt, and pleasure from a variety of perspectives. Individually and collectively, the articles in this volume juxtapose theoretical debates with case studies of actual dramatic practice.

About the Author

Joseph Harris is reader in early modern studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He lives in Oxford, U.K. Julia Prest is reader in early modern French at the University of St. Andrews. She lives in St. Andrews, UK.