Pierre Labrune
Biographic Data
| ID | 9685663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Labrune |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Labrune |
| SIGNATURE | LABRUNE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Lille |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Parody, Controversy, Commercial Opportunity
This article studies Samuel Foote’s comedy The Minor, created in 1760, and the controversy it provoked. As Foote’s play satirizes George Whitefield and his preaching, its legality was debated. The use of scriptural quotations by ridiculous characters was criticized as Methodists argued that religion itself was being ridiculed. Foote, however, constantly defended his right to lampoon hypocrites, and his play was a real success. Moreover, a new fas…
‘In this Light, then, or rather in this Darkness’
This article reconsiders John Bender’s reading of Fielding’s fiction and proposals for judicial reform in Imagining the Penitentiary by replacing Fielding’s writings in their religious context. Bender links Fielding’s use of omniscient narrators to his insistence on penal procedure and to his organising information in narrative sequences. Even though Bender’s analyses prove fruitful to account for certain formal innovations brought forth by Field…
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‘In this Light, then, or rather in this Darkness’
This article reconsiders John Bender’s reading of Fielding’s fiction and proposals for judicial reform in Imagining the Penitentiary by replacing Fielding’s writings in their religious context. Bender links Fielding’s use of omniscient narrators to his insistence on penal procedure and to his organising information in narrative sequences. Even though Bender’s analyses prove fruitful to account for certain formal innovations brought forth by Field…
Parody, Controversy, Commercial Opportunity
This article studies Samuel Foote’s comedy The Minor, created in 1760, and the controversy it provoked. As Foote’s play satirizes George Whitefield and his preaching, its legality was debated. The use of scriptural quotations by ridiculous characters was criticized as Methodists argued that religion itself was being ridiculed. Foote, however, constantly defended his right to lampoon hypocrites, and his play was a real success. Moreover, a new fas…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Comedy (1 work) · Darkness (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law in Society and Culture (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (1 work) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (1 work)