Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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Mark Darlow specialises in eighteenth-century French theatre and music (especially op茅ra-comique), Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the culture of the Revolutionary period. He is currently researching the posterity of French 鈥榗lassical鈥� theatre in the Enlightenment, with particular interest in material culture and book history. His work to date has sought to bring into dialogue approaches to eighteenth-century French theatre and musicology, most often from a cultural historical perspective (a methodology he has taught as part of the core course in theory for the Faculty鈥檚 MPhil course in Literature, Culture and Thought).
He has served on the editorial boards of Nottingham French Studies (2000-2006), and Oxford University Studies in the Enlightement (2018), and was also French reviews editor for Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies (2004-7). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Coulisses (since 2010), Modern Languages Open (since 2014), Early-Modern French Studies (since 2016), and European Drama and Performance Studies (since 2018).
His interdisciplinary research has been supported by grants from the AHRC, the British Academy, the Owen Taylor research fund; and he was winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005, the first time the prize had ever been awarded to a modern linguist.
He has served as associate researcher of the Centre de la musique baroque, Versailles, and has acted as overseas correspondent of the French government-funded Registres de la Com茅die-Italienne project spearheaded by Professor Fran莽oise Rubellin. He has acted as advisory board member for Professor Katherine Astbury鈥檚 AHRC-funded Napoleonic Theatre Project (University of Warwick), as REF consultant for Swansea University, and as member of the AHRC peer review college. He has in the past acted as expert reviewer for the EHRC, the French Atelier National de la Recherche, and the European Research Council in Belgium. Among outlook and media activity, he has written for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for Op茅ra en Wallonie and for Linn records.
He is currently involved in international research collaboration with Prof. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (University of North Texas), and is himself currently completing a monograph concerning the reception of French classical theatre in the period of the Enlightenment. The translation into Chinese of his monograph Staging the French Revolution is also forthcoming in 2020. Other ongoing projects concern sources for the actors of the Com茅die-Italienne in the Minutier central des notaires (Archives Nationales), the actress-entrepreneur Mlle Montansier, and eighteenth-century theatre women, on which he is also supervising a PhD thesis.
He is currently course contact for Fr10: Enlightenment and its limits, and welcomes enquiries from potential graduate students, in the areas listed above.
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Books and edited volumes
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1. Michel-Jean Sedaine, Th茅芒tre de la r茅volution (MHRA critical texts, 2017), viii-181p.
2. Shadows in the Enlightenment: the concept of Chiaroscuro in early-modern France, co-edited with Marion Lafouge, special number of Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dec. 2014, p.427-608.
3. Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: the Quarrel of the Gluckists and the Piccinnists (Oxford: Legenda, 2013), 229pp.
4. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Op茅ra de Paris, 1789-1794 (New York: OUP, 2012) [in series The New Cultural History of Music], 432pp. This book was runner-up for the Gapper prize of the Society for French Studies in 2012.
5. Laya, L鈥橝mi des lois, co-ed. with Yann Robert (MHRA, 2011) [in series Ph艙nix: Critical texts], 374pp.
6. The Discursive Culture: Reaction and Interaction, Text and Context, ed. M. Darlow and C. Warman, SVEC, 2007:06, p.1-157. Part-volume of nine chapters, including co-authored introduction and one single-authored chapter
7. Revolutionary Culture: Continuity and Change, special number of Nottingham French Studies, 45.1 (Spring 2006), 116pp. Including single-authored chapter and introduction
8. Nicolas-Etienne Framery and lyric theatre in eighteenth-century France (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2003) [in series: SVEC, 2003:11], xii-400pp.
9. Ma卯tres et valets dans la com茅die fran莽aise du 18e si猫cle (Paris: Br茅al, 1999), 128pp.
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Journal articles and book chapters
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1. 鈥楲'Op茅ra pendant la p茅riode r茅volutionnaire', edited selection of texts in La R茅glementation de l'Op茅ra de Paris 1669-2019: 脡dition des principaux textes normatifs, ed. Vincent Giroud and Solveig Serre (Paris: Presses de l鈥橢cole des Chartes, 2019), p.89-167.
2. 鈥楾error without pity: Tragedy and the French Revolution鈥�, in Theatrale Revolten, ed. Agnes Hoffmann and Annette Kappeler (Leiden: Wilhelm Fink, 2018), 25-44.
3. 鈥楢 鈥淪tolen鈥� Theatre on Rue de la Loi: The Op茅ra after Thermidor鈥�, in Law and Opera, ed. Filippo Annunziata and Giorgio Fabio Colombo (Springer, 2018), p.283-95.
4. 鈥楲a place des 艙uvres de Moli猫re dans le r茅pertoire du XVIIIe si猫cle鈥�, Litt茅ratures classiques, 95 (2018), 151-65.
5. 鈥樷�楥ris nouveaux鈥�: the soundscape of Paris in Mercier鈥檚 Tableau de Paris and Nouveau Paris鈥�, Early-Modern French Studies, 41.1 (2019), 88-103.
6. 'Nihil per saltum: eighteenth-century views of chiaroscuro in spoken and lyric theatre' in Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley (eds.), Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750鈥�1850: Exchanges and Tensions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), p.37-51.
7. 'Discours et dynamiques progressistes : l鈥橝cad茅mie Royale de Musique pendant la Querelle des Bouffons', in Revue d'histoire du th茅芒tre, 261 (janvier-mars 2014), 55-65.
8. '"Malgre tous les Gluck du monde": Voltaire et la r茅forme de l'op茅ra', Revue Voltaire, 13 (2013), 79-94.
9. 鈥楲e ballet sous la Revolution鈥�, in Mathias Auclair and Christophe Ghristi (eds.), Le Ballet de l'Opera: Trois siecles de supr茅matie depuis Louis XIV (Paris: Aubin Michel, 2013), p.66-69.
10. 'L'effritement du privil猫ge th茅芒tral: les d茅bats de 1789-1790', in Solveig Serre, Denis Herlin and Sabine Chaouche (eds.), L'Op茅ra de Paris, la Com茅die-Fran莽aise et l'Op茅ra-Comique (1669-2010): approches compar茅es (Paris: Presses de l'茅cole des chartes, 2012), 12pp.
11. 'Eighteenth-century French musical theatre: Etat pr茅sent', French Studies, 66 (2012), 68-77.
12. 'The repertory of the Paris Op茅ra, 1789-1799' in Solveig Serre and Michel Noiray (eds.), Le R茅pertoire de l'Op茅ra de Paris (1671-2009): Analyse et interpr茅tation (Paris: Presses de l'茅cole des chartes, 2011), p.117-40.
13. Diderot's voice(s) in New Essays on Diderot, ed. James Fowler (海角社区: CUP, 2011), pp.203-19.
14. [13a. The above translated into German: 鈥楧iderots Stimme(n): Musik und Reform. Von der 鈥淨uerelle des Bouffons鈥� bis zu Neveu de Rameau鈥�, in Aufkl盲rung und Kritik, 4 (2013), 227-38 [special number: 鈥楧enis Diderot zum 300. Geburtstag鈥橾.
15. 鈥楬istory and (meta-)theatricality: The French Revolution鈥檚 paranoid aesthetics鈥�, in Modern Language Review, 105 (2010), 385-400.
16. 鈥楻epertory reforms at the Paris Op茅ra on the eve of the Revolution鈥� in La Vie Th茅芒trale en France au XVIIIe si猫cle, ed. John Golder (special number of Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies), 32 (2009), 563-76.
17. 鈥楲es ballets dans Tarare, version de 1819鈥�, in Musique et geste: de Lully 脿 la R茅volution: Etudes sur la musique, le th茅芒tre et la danse, ed. Jacqueline Waeber (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp.249-61.
18. 鈥楲e r茅pertoire de l鈥橝cademie Royale de Musique pendante la Constituante鈥�, in Le Th茅芒tre sous la R茅volution: Politique du r茅pertoire (1789-1799), ed. Martial Poirson (Paris: Desjonqu猫res, 2008), pp.90-102.
19. 鈥楲e vaudeville 脿 la Com茅die-Italienne, 1767-1789鈥� in Carlo Goldoni et la France: Un Dialogue dramatique de la modernit茅 (Revue des Etudes italiennes, 53 [2007]), ed. A. Fabiano, 87-95.
20. 鈥楾he role of the listener in the musical aesthetics of the Revolution鈥�, in The Discursive Culture: Reaction and Interaction, Text and Context, ed. Darlow and Warman, SVEC 2007:06, 143-57.
21. 鈥榁audeville et distanciation dans l鈥檕p茅ra-comique des ann茅es 1750鈥�, in La Querelle des Bouffons dans la vie culturelle fran莽aise du XVIIIe si猫cle, ed. A. Fabiano (Paris: Editions du CNRS, 2005), pp.43-55.
22. 鈥楻epr茅sentations de la simplicit茅 masculine dans l鈥檕p茅ra-comique fran莽ais鈥�, in Masculinit茅s en France, 1700-1830, ed. K. Astbury and M.-E. Plagnol-Di茅val (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004), pp.79-92.
23. 鈥楲a parodie dans l鈥檕p茅ra et la notion de s茅rie musicale鈥�, in S茅ries parodiques, edited by D. Qu茅ro (Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2004), pp.179-92.
24. 鈥樷�淎pprendre aux hommes 脿 mourir鈥�: the theatrical adaptations of Paul et Virginie鈥�, in Morality and Justice: The Challenge of European Theatre, special number of European Studies, 17 (2001), 129-42.
25. 鈥楤eaumarchais, Framery and the Soci茅t茅 des Auteurs Dramatiques鈥�, in P. Robinson (ed.), Beaumarchais: Homme de lettres, homme de soci茅t茅 (Bern-New York: Peter Lang, 2000), pp.39-55.
26. 鈥楾heorising the 鈥渄ramatic novella鈥�: the case of Az茅mia鈥�, in Enlightenment and Narrative: Essays in Honour of Richard Francis, ed. Philip Robinson, Nottingham French Studies, 48.3 (Autumn 2009), 125-36.
27. 鈥楽taging the Revolution: The Fait historique鈥�, in Revolutionary Culture: Continuity and Change, ed. Darlow, Nottingham French Studies, 45.1 (Spring 2006), 77-88.
28. 鈥楶olitique et op茅ra: Les reprises de Tarare (Beaumarchais, Salieri), de 1787 脿 1819鈥�, in Vives Lettres, 13 (2002), 11-28.
29. 鈥楶arody and the com茅die m锚l茅e d鈥檃riettes, 1752-1789鈥�, in D. Connon and G. Evans (eds.), Essays on French Classical Drama from the 1640s to the 1780s (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000), pp.185-203.
30. 鈥楤ernardin de Saint-Pierre鈥檚 writings on ethics: from the Ecole Normale to the Institut de France鈥�, in L. Duffy and C. Emerson (eds.), La Nature d茅voil茅e: French Literary Responses to Science (Hull: Hull U.P., 2000), pp.39-58.
31. 鈥楲es parodies du Devin du village de Rousseau et la sensibilit茅 dans l鈥檕p茅ra-comique fran莽ais鈥�, Bulletin de la soci茅t茅 li茅geoise de musicologie, 13-14 (1999), 123-41.
32. 鈥楩onctionnement des timbres dans Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne de Mme Favart et Harny de Guerville鈥�, in H. Schneider (Hg.), Timbre und Vaudeville, zur Geschichte und Problematik einer popul盲ren Gattung im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, 鈥楳usikwissenschaftliche Publikationen鈥�, Band 11, (Hildesheim-Z眉rich-New York: Georg Olms, 1999), pp.226-43.
33. 鈥楳usic and the specificity of languages: Rousseau and the problem of translation鈥�, in J. Proud and D. Bickerton (eds.), The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850: Papers celebrating the bicentenary of the 鈥楤iblioth猫que Britannique鈥� (1796-1815) in Geneva (Bern-New York: Peter Lang, 1999), pp.129-46.
34. 鈥樷�淧eindre sa voix pour soutenir son r么le鈥�: The use of 茅criteaux in Lesage鈥檚 Th茅芒tre de la Foire and the transgressionary nature of the aesthetic鈥�, in L. Duffy and A. Tudor (eds.), Les Lieux interdits: Transgression and French Literature (Hull: Hull U.P., 1998), pp.114-45.
