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