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Sites of the Spectator - Emerging Literary and Cultural Practice in eighteenth-century France (Hardcover)
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Sites of the Spectator - Emerging Literary and Cultural Practice in eighteenth-century France (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2001:09
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The Spectator is a major figure of the French Enlightenment whose
far-reaching significance has not been fully grasped. As a basic
organising principle of culture production in France of the early
and mid-eighteenth century, the Spectator is an intermediary figure
residing between the ancien regime and France of the Revolution.
This transitional moment can be read in - and, furthermore, was
prepared by - the emergence of several new literary genres in
which, paradoxically, a Spectator was allotted the principle role.
This study traces the process in which the king's disenfranchised
subjects, at first limited merely to looking on at the spectacle of
royal authority and privilege, began to evolve through versatile
Spectator roles into citizen subjects. Each of four chapters
reveals the significance of these figures to the development of a
particular genre or disciplinary formation: Spectator journalism,
art criticism, fiction of voyage and the exotic, and alternative
popular theater (the theatre de la joie). These genres designate
the Spectator as constituing the narrative, thematic, textual focus
that articulates contemporary life, foreign exotic cultures, art
objects and knowledge itself. In the shift from a silent, near-
invisible audience to a more active, more sharply delineated entity
of Spectators - for whom, and in function of whom, not only
literary and social production but the monarchy itself were
increasingly obliged to perform - a vital and as yet untold story
of early and mid-eighteenth-century culture is recounted.
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