A feminist analysis of gender and primogeniture in French neoclassical tragedy
Subtitle: the literary politics behind the French Revolution
By: Sharon Worley ; with a foreword by Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Dieval
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773425835
Subjects: French drama; Neoclassicism (Art); Feminism and theater; History and criticism; Neoclassicism (Literature); France; Theater and the revolution; Women authors; Women and literature; Primogeniture in literature; Heroines in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Olympe de Gouges and Marie-Joseph Chenier : gender and feminism in tandem with the parabola of revolutionary politics and French theatre; title: Brutus : the Republican reversal of patrician privilege and the sublimation of feminist political power; title: 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; title: Gender and primogeniture in Racine's Andromaque : the politics of power, women and the state; title: Racine's Phedre as the criminalized femme fatale : political representation and the disjunctive female spectator; title: Iphigenie : sacrifice as the consummation of dynasty and the inversion of female autonomy.