Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

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...

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Contributors: Bloom, Rori (Contributor) ; Comsa, Maria Teodora (Contributor) ; Curulla, Annelle (Contributor) ; Falaky, Fayçal 1977- (Contributor) ; Hakim, Zeina (Contributor) ; Hargrave, Katharine (Contributor) ; Leichman, Jeffrey M. (Contributor) ; Mandarino, Erika (Contributor) ; McGinnis, Reginald 1959- (Contributor) ; Perras, Jean-Alexandre (Contributor) ; Robert, Yann (Contributor) ; Yamashita, Masano (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Lewisburg, PA Bucknell University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
Further subjects:B eighteenth-century France, play, games, ludic, playfulness, theater, cultural studies, french, francophone, law, religion, politics, economics, Age of Reason, free will, determinism, Enlightenment France, dolls, bilboquets, lotteries, French Revolution, orientalism
B PERFORMING ARTS / Generals
B Games in literature
B Games Social aspects (France) History 18th century
B French Literature 18th century History and criticism
B Play Social aspects (France) History 18th century
B Play in literature
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