Book Talk with Logan Connors, "Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire"
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265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
https://humanities.as.miami.edu/public-programs/booktalks/index.htmlJoin us to learn about the book Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire by Logan J. Connors.
Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire is the first study of French theater and war at a time of global revolutions, colonial violence, and radical social transformation. Analyzing France and its largest Caribbean colony (Saint-Domingue), and spanning the Old Regime and Revolution, Logan Connors presents an ambitious, richly interdisciplinary argument, grounded in theater and performance studies, literary analysis of drama, and cultural, military, and gender history. Demonstrating how war and soldiering catalyzed new drama types and fostered theater's expansion into France's geographical and social peripheries, the study also shows how theater emerged as a dynamic space in which military practices could be re-imagined. This major scholarly intervention provides unparalleled insight into theater's engagement with international and domestic war efforts during a transformational period in global history.
Logan J. Connors is Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. At UM, he co-convenes the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Theatre & Performance Studies, and he was recently named Cooper Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of three monographs and has published over thirty peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles in venues across North America and Europe. He researches French literature and theatrical performance from 1650 to 1815 as well as topics in theatre and performance studies, the history of the emotions, colonial Caribbean studies, and comparative revolution studies. He teaches French and Francophone Literatures from the medieval period to the present as well as graduate seminars on performance studies and professionalization.
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