The Orient of the Boulevards
Subtitle: Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater (New Cultural Studies Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780812234251
Subjects: Cultural studies; Theatre, drama; c 1800 to c 1900; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Continental European; European - French; 19th century; Exoticism in literature; France; French Drama; History; History and criticism; Theater
Description: Angela C. Pao draws upon the methodologies of theater and cultural studies to examine the construction of "the Orient" on the Parisian stage during the nineteenth century, the period of France's first imperial expansions into North Africa and the Middle East.

Mining rich archival resources of play-texts, censorship reports, critical reviews, and contemporary writings on performance practice, The Orient of the Boulevards reveals the complex processes by which the institutions of popular culture helped shape nineteenth-century notions of race, ethnicity, and nationality.