Mormons in Paris : Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 (Scènes Francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater)

Cropper, Corry (EDT)/ Flood, Christopher M. (EDT)/ Cropper, Corry (TRN)

Rutgers University Press（2020/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 428 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781684482368
• DDC分類 842.809382

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mormons in Paris
Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour
Chapter 2: Berthelier Meets the Mormons
Chapter 3: Japheth's Twelve Wives
Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières
Chapter 4: Stephana's Jewel
Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index