From Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth-And Eighteenth-Century France - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520208064 ISBN 13 : 9780520208063

Editeur : University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this volume, scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in 17th- and 18th-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king's body and the substitution of a new, republican body. Throughout, the authors explore how race and gender shaped the body politic under the Bourbons and during the Revolution. This study expands our conception of state power and demonstrates that seemingly apolitical activities like the performing arts, dress and ritual contribute to the state's hegemony. The text aims to be a valuable resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history and political theory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sara E. Melzer is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles, author of Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées (California, 1986), and coeditor (with Leslie W. Rabine) of Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (1992). Kathryn Norberg is an Associate Professor at UCLA and former Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. She has coedited (with Philip T. Hoffman) Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government, 1450-1789 (1994) and is the author of Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814 (California, 1985).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520208064
• ISBN 13: 9780520208063
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Éditeur: Melzer Sara E., Norberg Kathryn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible