Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-De-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity

Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians. They focus on the emergence of the modern theatre as change generated from within bourgeois literary drama but ignore theatre as a complex social practice. Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris investigates the dynamic relationships among the avant-garde, official culture and the commercial sphere, arguing against the neat divide of 'high' and 'low' culture by showing how cultural forms of varying social origins influenced each other.

Author: S. Charnow
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/13/2005
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.78w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781403970411

About the Author
SALLY CHARNOW is Assistant Professor of History at Hofstra University, USA. Her articles have appeared in Women in Jewish Culture: Active Voices (University of Illinois Press, 1995), Radical History Review and Historical Reflections.