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Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Michael Mulryan
Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Michael Mulryan
September 15, 2023
French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Read more.
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Space, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia by Javier Lorenzo
Space, Drama, and Empire: Mapping the Past in Lope de Vega's Comedia by Javier Lorenzo
September 15, 2023
Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. Read more.
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