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Mormons in Paris

Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892
Buch | Softcover
428 Seiten
2020
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-236-8 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
Presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth's Twelve Wives (1890), and and Stephana's Jewel (1892).
Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association

In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

CORRY CROPPER is a professor of French at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His book Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France examines French literary representations of sports and games. He has also published on nineteenth-century Fantastic literature, and on cycling, gambling, and poaching in French fiction. CHRISTOPHER M. FLOOD is an assistant professor of French at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research focuses on the unique insights offered by comedies and satires into the contexts that produced them. He has previously published on medieval and early modern political and religious satires.  

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mormons in Paris
Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour
Chapter 2: Berthelier Meets the Mormons
Chapter 3: Japheth’s Twelve Wives
Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières
Chapter 4: Stephana’s Jewel
Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
Übersetzer Corry Cropper, Christopher M. Flood
Zusatzinfo 7 b-w images, 2 color images
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 467 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
ISBN-10 1-68448-236-4 / 1684482364
ISBN-13 978-1-68448-236-8 / 9781684482368
Zustand Neuware
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