When Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux’s Le Triomphe de l’amour opened in pre-Revolutionary Paris in 1732, its genteel mockery of aristocratic mores brought titters to the gentry assembled in the ...

Inside a shadowed, cramped carriage on the move, two 18th century French ladies unlace each other’s dresses, roll off their stockings and wrap their breasts as they giggle impishly. Triumph of Love’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Critical studies in the modern ...

Clare Peploe’s “The Triumph of Love” is the movie equivalent of a good summer dress: Shimmery and breezy, it lets just enough air and sunlight through. Based on a recent English stage production of ...