Mormons in Paris : : Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 / / ed. by Corry Cropper, Christopher M. Flood.
In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 7 b-w images, 2 color images |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- MORMONS IN PARIS -- BERTHELIER MEETS THE MORMONS -- JAPHETH’S TWELVE WIVES -- STEPHANA’S JEWEL -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE EDITORS |
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Summary: | In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781684482405 9783110753790 9783110754032 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110739138 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781684482405 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Corry Cropper, Christopher M. Flood. |