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04149aam a2200553 i 4500 001 DC846438EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210411s2022 paua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021008398 020 $a 1684483409 020 $a 9781684483402 020 $a 1684483417 020 $a 9781684483419 035 $a (OCoLC)1252736275 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d PBU $d YUS $d OCLCO $d OBE $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a PQ265 $b .M598 2022 082 0 $a 840.9/357909033 $2 23 245 00 $a Modes of play in eighteenth-century France / $c edited by Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis. 264 1 $a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : $b Bucknell University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a vi, 208 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a SceÌnes francophones 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Playing with dolls in old regime fairy tales / Rori Bloom -- The morality of bilboquet, or the equivocations of language / Jean-Alexandre Perras -- Fiction as play : rhetorical subversion in Alain-ReneÌ Lesage's Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane / Zeina Hakim -- Playthings of fortune : lots, games of chance, and inequality in l'AbbeÌ PreÌvost / Masano Yamashita -- Boundless play and infinite pleasure in the Chevalier de BeÌthune's Relation du monde de Mercure / Erika Mandarino -- The politics of orientalist fantasy in French opera / Katharine Hargrave -- Playing at theater : modes of play in TheÌaÌtre de SocieÌteÌ / Maria Teodora Comsa -- Between play and ritual : profane masquerade in the French Revolution / Annelle Curulla -- The return of play, or the end of revolutionary theater / Yann Robert -- Video games as cultural history : procedural narrative and the eighteenth-century fair theater / Jeffrey M. Leichman. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a French literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Play in literature. 650 0 $a Games in literature. 650 0 $a Play $x History $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Games $x History $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a French literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934688 650 7 $a Games in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00937574 650 7 $a Games $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00937553 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Play in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01066967 650 7 $a Play $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01066950 651 0 $a France $x Social life and customs $y 18th century. 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Falaky, Fayçal, $d 1977- $e editor. 700 1 $a McGinnis, Reginald, $d 1959- $e editor. 830 0 $a SceÌnes francophones. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030142.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC846438EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search