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Pixerécourt, Radcliffe and Ducray-Duminil : the Gothic and melodrama during the Directory and Consulate
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Astbury, Katherine (2023) Pixerécourt, Radcliffe and Ducray-Duminil : the Gothic and melodrama during the Directory and Consulate. Publifarum, 37 (1). pp. 63-82. ISSN 1824-7482.
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Abstract
This article looks at the role of novels in the development of melodrama across the Directory and Consulate period (1795-1804). Guilbert de Pixerécourt, who dominated the French theatrical scene of the early 19th century with a blend of sentimental drama, music, and large-scale spectacle that came to be called melodrama, had his first theatrical successes with adaptations for the stage of novels by the most popular English Gothic writer in France, Ann Radcliffe, and the bestselling French author François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, whose work bears a number of Radcliffian hallmarks. These adaptations will reveal the significance of the Gothic in the development of melodrama and the political, aesthetic and dramatic priorities of this under-researched period.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Melodrama, French -- 18th century -- History and criticism, Melodrama, French -- 19th century -- History and criticism, French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism, French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Pixérécourt, R.-C. Guilbert de (René-Charles Guilbert de), 1773-1844 -- Criticism and interpretation, Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823 -- Criticism and interpretation, Ducray-Duminil, M. (François Guillaume), 1761-1819 -- Criticism and interpretation, Gothic revival (Literature) -- France -- History -- 18th century, Gothic revival (Literature) -- France -- History -- 19th century | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Publifarum | ||||||
| Publisher: | Universita degli Studi di Genova | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1824-7482 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 27 January 2023 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 37 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 63-82 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright (c) 2023 Katherine Astbury | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 January 2023 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 January 2023 |
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