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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
Series: Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
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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.
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