Orientalism in French Classical Drama

Orientalism in French Classical Drama
ISBN-10
0521025176
ISBN-13
9780521025171
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2006-03-16
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Michele Longino

Description

Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.

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