Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

Introduction
Faycal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis
1 Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales
Rori Bloom
2 The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language
Jean-Alexandre Perras
3 Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-Rene Lesage's Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
Zeina Hakim
4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l'Abbe Prevost
Masano Yamashita
5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Bethune's Relation du monde de Mercure
Erika Mandarino
6 The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera
Katharine Hargrave
7 Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Theatre de Societe
Maria Teodora Comsa
8 Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution
Annelle Curulla
9 The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater
Yann Robert
10 Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater
Jeffrey M. Leichman
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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• Estudos teatrais
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• História da Europa
• História social e cultural

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