Gregory S. Brown's "A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers,
Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field
from Racine to the Revolution" offers a multilevel study of the
intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic
authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris.
Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed
materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the
rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment
and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. Drawing on a
sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work
against and between the grain of alternative approaches and
interpretations. He combines scholarship on the history of the book
with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving
the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the
tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century
"republic of letters."
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