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The Emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 (Paperback)
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The Emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2020:01
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The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740
highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic
literature and its undergirding rules to a new, relational
discourse on the emotional power of theater. Through a diverse cast
of religious theaterphobes, government officials, playwrights, art
theorists and proto-philosophes, Connors shows the concerted effort
in early Enlightenment France to use texts about theater to
establish broader theories on emotion, on the enduring
psychological and social ramifications of affective moments, and
more generally, on human interaction, motivation, and social
behavior. This fundamentally anthropological assessment of theater
emerged in the works of anti-theatrical religious writers, who
argued that emotional response was theater's raison d'etre and that
it was an efficient venue to learn more about the depravity of
human nature. A new generation of pro-theatrical writers shared the
anti-theatricalists' intense focus on the emotions of theater, but
unlike religious theaterphobes, they did not view emotion as a
conduit of sin or as a dangerous, uncontrollable process; but
rather, as cognitive-affective moments of feeling and learning.
Connors' study explores this reassessment of the theatrical
experience which empowered writers to use plays, critiques, and
other cultural materials about the stage to establish a theatrical
science of man-an early Enlightenment project with aims to study
and 'improve' the emotional, social, and political 'health' of
eighteenth-century France.
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