Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781684482368)

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Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892

$46.95

Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association

In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent "others," however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. 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). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. 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.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author: Corry Cropper
ISBN-10: 1684482364
ISBN-13: 9781684482368
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2020
Pages: 428
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Corry Cropper
By Corry Cropper
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CORRY CROPPER is a professor of French at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His book Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France examines French literary representations of sports and games. He has also published on nineteenth-century Fantastic literature, and on cycling, gambling, and poaching in French fiction.

CHRISTOPHER M. FLOOD is an assistant professor of French at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research focuses on the unique insights offered by comedies and satires into the contexts that produced them. He has previously published on medieval and early modern political and religious satires.

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