Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

FAYÇAL FALAKY is an associate professor of French at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he specializes in eighteenth-century French literature, culture, and politics. He is the author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau. REGINALD MCGINNIS is a professor of French at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of Essai sur l'origine de la mystification and a book, co-authored with John Vignaux Smyth, titled Mock Ritual in the Modern Era. Current projects include a book on the abbé Edme Mallet.

Introduction

Fayçal 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-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Zeina Hakim

4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost

Masano Yamashita

5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’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 Théâtre de Société

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