Commemorating Mirabeau
Mirabeau aux Champs-Elysées and other texts
Edited by Jessica Goodman
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 1 August 2017 • 214pp ISBN: 978-1-781882-18-4 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-781887-56-1 (JSTOR ebook) ISBN: 978-1-781887-57-8 (EBSCO ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR EnlightenmentFrenchDramaHistory The death of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, on 2 April 1791, was a key moment in the early years of the French Revolution. The renowned orator, who had played a major role in drafting the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, succumbed to heart disease aged forty- two. His death prompted the establishment of the Panthéon, that secular temple intended to honour the great men of a new, free France. It was also the impetus for a whole range of artistic commemorative creations, including a number of plays, performed or published in the days following his death. This edition presents three such plays, all of which stage Mirabeau in conversation with other great men and women in the afterlife. It situates these texts in the memorial culture of the period, examining how they relate to other forms of commemoration, how they construct the figures of their protagonist and his companions, why their authors performed this commemorative act, and how the same genre could also subvert the celebratory tone. With an appendix containing a further two previously unpublished plays and a dossier on another lost text, this volume is an important study of the role and value of literary – and especially theatrical – commemoration in the early 1790s. Jessica Goodman is Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in French at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
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Bibliography entry: Goodman, Jessica (ed.), Commemorating Mirabeau: Mirabeau aux Champs-Elysées and other texts, Critical Texts, 58 (MHRA, 2017) First footnote reference: 35 Commemorating Mirabeau: Mirabeau aux Champs-Elysées and other texts, ed. by Jessica Goodman, Critical Texts, 58 (MHRA, 2017), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Goodman, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Goodman, Jessica (ed.). 2017. Commemorating Mirabeau: Mirabeau aux Champs-Elysées and other texts, Critical Texts, 58 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Goodman 2017: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Goodman 2017: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Commemorating-Mirabeau www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-58 |