12/29/2023 0 Comments Corry cropprDistributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century Franceįor centuries sports have been used to mask or to uncoverimportant social and political problems, and there is no better exampleof this than France during the nineteenth century, when it changed frommonarchy to empire to republic. 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. Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. 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). Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association By looking at how it influenced French attitudes towards politics, national identity, technology, fashion, fitness, and gender roles, this book shows how the short-lived craze of velocipedomania had a big impact. It also reprints scores of rare images from newspapers and advertisements, analyzing how these magnificent machines captured the era’s visual imagination. Giving readers a window into the material culture and enthusiasms of Second Empire France, it provides the first English translations of 1869’s Manual of the Velocipede, 1868’s Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede, and the 1869 operetta Dagobert and his Velocipede. It explores how the device was hailed as a symbol of France’s cutting-edge technological advancements, yet also marketed as an invention with a noble pedigree, born from the nation’s cultural and literary heritage. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. den Bestellverlauf im Amazon Store) verwendet, lesen Sie bitte unsere Datenschutzerklärung. Um mehr darüber zu erfahren, wie und zu welchen Zwecken Amazon personenbezogene Daten (z. Sie können Ihre Auswahl jederzeit ändern, indem Sie die Cookie-Einstellungen, wie in den Cookie-Bestimmungen beschrieben, aufrufen. Klicken Sie auf „Cookies anpassen“, um diese Cookies abzulehnen, detailliertere Einstellungen vorzunehmen oder mehr zu erfahren. Drittanbieter verwenden Cookies, um personalisierte Anzeigen zu schalten, deren Wirksamkeit zu messen, Erkenntnisse über Zielgruppen zu generieren und Produkte zu entwickeln und zu verbessern. Dies beinhaltet die Verwendung von Cookies von Erst- und Drittanbietern, die Standardgeräteinformationen wie eine eindeutige Kennzeichnung speichern oder darauf zugreifen. Dies wird auch in unseren Cookie-Bestimmungen beschrieben. Wenn Sie damit einverstanden sind, verwenden wir auch Cookies, um Ihr Einkaufserlebnis in den Stores zu ergänzen. durch Messung der Websiteaufrufe), damit wir Verbesserungen vornehmen können. Wir verwenden diese Cookies auch, um nachzuvollziehen, wie Kunden unsere Dienste nutzen (z. Wir verwenden Cookies und ähnliche Tools, die erforderlich sind, um Ihnen Einkäufe zu ermöglichen, Ihr Einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern und unsere Dienste bereitzustellen.
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