Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France / / ed. by Fayçal Falaky, Reginald McGinnis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Bloom, Rori,; Comsa, Maria Teodora,; Curulla, Annelle,; Falaky, Fayçal,; Hakim, Zeina,; Hargrave, Katharine,; Leichman, Jeffrey M.,; Mandarino, Erika,; McGinnis, Reginald,; Perras, Jean-Alexandre,; Robert, Yann,; Yamashita, Masano,
• HerausgeberIn: Falaky, Fayçal,; McGinnis, Reginald,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 3 color, 4 b-w images
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales --; 2 The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language --; 3 Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane --; 4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost --; 5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’s Relation du monde de Mercure --; 6 The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera --; 7 Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société --; 8 Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution --; 9 The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater --; 10 Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater --; Acknowledgments --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781684483440; 9783110753790; 9783110754032; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110766479
• DOI: 10.36019/9781684483440?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Fayçal Falaky, Reginald McGinnis.

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.