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From the Royal to the Republican Body
Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
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2023
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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.
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 v
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 v
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Contributor: Sara E. Melzer
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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Introduction
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1. The Body Politics of French Absolutism
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2. Lim(b)inal Images: "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodies
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3. The King Cross-Dressed: Power and Force in Royal Ballets
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4. Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances: Technologies of the Body in Baroque Music
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5. Body of Law: The Sun King and the Code Noir
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6. Louis le Bien-Aimé and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body
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7. Dancing the Body Politic: Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Ballet
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8. The Theater of Punishment: Melodrama and Judicial Reform in Prerevolutionary France
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9. Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politic
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10. Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France
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Contributors
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Index
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July 6, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780520918801
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Reprint 2019
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286
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9780520918801
Keywords for this book
the body; kings body; 17th century french history; 17th century french society; 18th century french history; 18th century french society; french revolution; physical body; republican body; gendered rhetoric; gendered body; political significance; gender studies; state power; performing arts; european history; european politics; cultural identity; monarchy; body politic; dance; drama; art; social ritual; race; bourbons; dress and ritual; kings; royalty; france; gender; music; politics; political theory
