仮面とパリの近代 Paris Concealed : Masks in the City of Light

Johnson, James H.

University of Chicago Press（2025/01発売）

University of Chicago Press（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780226836461
• DDC分類 391.43409443

Full Description

A comprehensive history of masks in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 

Masks can conceal, disguise, or protect. They can guard status, inspire delight, or spread fear. They can also betray trust through insincerity, deceit, and hypocrisy. In Paris Concealed, historian James H. Johnson offers a sweeping history of masks both visible and unseen from the time of Louis XIV to the late nineteenth century, exploring the complex roles that masking and unmasking have played in the fashioning of our social selves.
 
Drawing from memoirs, novels, plays, and paintings, Paris Concealed explores the many domains in which masks have been decisive. Beginning in the court of Versailles, Johnson charts the genesis of courtly politesse and its widespread condemnation by Enlightenment philosophers and political thinkers. He describes strategies deployed in the era of the French Revolution for unmasking traitors and later efforts to penetrate criminal disguises through telltale marks on the body. He portrays the disruptive power of masks in public balls and carnivals and, with the coming of modernity, evokes their unsettling presence within the unconscious. 
 
Compellingly written and beautifully illustrated, Paris Concealed lays bare the mask's transformations, from marking one's position in a static society to inspiring imagined identities in meritocracies to impeding the elusive search for one's true self.  To tell the history of masks, Johnson shows, is to tell the history of modern selfhood.

Contents

Preface

Part One: Status
Chapter One: Mutual Delusion
Chapter Two: Formality and Farce
Chapter Three: Crises of Identity

Part Two: Society
Chapter Four: To the Truthful World
Chapter Five: Festivity and Its Limits
Chapter Six: Unmasking the Heart

Part Three: The Body
Chapter Seven: Century of Shadows
Chapter Eight: Reading the Body

Part Four: Politics
Chapter Nine: The Mask's Anonymity
Chapter Ten: World Upside Down
Chapter Eleven: The King's Execution

Part Five: The Psyche
Chapter Twelve: Modern Masks
Chapter Thirteen: The World Within

Afterword

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes
Index