Katherine Ibbett: 2 books
Compassion's Edge
Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the...
The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630–1660
Neoclassicism and Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeenth-century French theater. Each chapter takes up a particularity of seventeenth-century theatrical style and staging”for example, the clearing...