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

Melzer, Sara E.; Norberg, Kathryn

 
9780520208070: From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520208072 ISBN 13 : 9780520208070
Editeur : University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-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 compelling 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. From the Royal to the Republican Body will be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory.

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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).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520208072
ISBN 13 
9780520208070
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780520208063: From Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth-And Eighteenth-Century France

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ISBN 10 :  0520208064 ISBN 13 :  9780520208063
Editeur : University of California Press, 1998
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