{"title":"Tentations spectaculaires: quelques représentations théâtrales de l’alcoolisme ouvrier, de la monarchie de Juillet à la Troisième République","authors":"Marjolaine Forest","doi":"10.1353/ncf.2023.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The present article considers stage representations of alcohol issues in the French working class from the July Monarchy to the Third Republic, through four plays: a vaudeville (Plus de jeudi, by Victor Ducange and Anicet Bourgeois, 1838), two examples of “humanitarian theater”—Marie-Jeanne, ou la Femme du peuple (1845), by Adolphe Dennery and Julien de Mallian, and Le Chiffonnier de Paris (1847), by Félix Pyat—and a “social drama” (L’Assommoir, a theatrical adaptation of Zola’s novel by William Busnach and Octave Gastineau, 1879). According to its own genre, each play stages alcohol-related harms: disorders and troubled gestures, postures, or movements are either seen or heard. This aesthetics of excess exhibits, either in a comic or a (melo)dramatic manner, the consequences of alcoholism leading to denouements: abusive drinking leads characters to the brink of catastrophe, and it ceases once they are persuaded to proclaim their temperance. (In French.)","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"258 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2023.0004","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The present article considers stage representations of alcohol issues in the French working class from the July Monarchy to the Third Republic, through four plays: a vaudeville (Plus de jeudi, by Victor Ducange and Anicet Bourgeois, 1838), two examples of “humanitarian theater”—Marie-Jeanne, ou la Femme du peuple (1845), by Adolphe Dennery and Julien de Mallian, and Le Chiffonnier de Paris (1847), by Félix Pyat—and a “social drama” (L’Assommoir, a theatrical adaptation of Zola’s novel by William Busnach and Octave Gastineau, 1879). According to its own genre, each play stages alcohol-related harms: disorders and troubled gestures, postures, or movements are either seen or heard. This aesthetics of excess exhibits, either in a comic or a (melo)dramatic manner, the consequences of alcoholism leading to denouements: abusive drinking leads characters to the brink of catastrophe, and it ceases once they are persuaded to proclaim their temperance. (In French.)
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.