Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Illustrations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Body Politics of French Absolutism 11
6. 2. Lim(b)inal Images: "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodies 32
7. 3. The King Cross-Dressed: Power and Force in Royal Ballets 64
8. 4. Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances: Technologies of the Body in Baroque Music 85
9. 5. Body of Law: The Sun King and the Code Noir 113
10. 6. Louis le Bien-Aimé and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body 131
11. 7. Dancing the Body Politic: Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Ballet 162
12. 8. The Theater of Punishment: Melodrama and Judicial Reform in Prerevolutionary France 182
13. 9. Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politic 198
14. 10. Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France 224
15. Contributors 251
16. Index 255