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

From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France, 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 gered textual and visu, From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
  • Written by author Sara E. Melzer
  • Published by University of California Press, July 1998
  • 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 gered textual and visu
  • 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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Introduction1
1The Body Politics of French Absolutism11
2Lim(b)inal Images: "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodies32
3The King Cross-Dressed: Power and Force in Royal Ballets64
4Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances: Technologies of the Body in Baroque Music85
5Body of Law: The Sun King and the Code Noir113
6Louis le Bien-Aime and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body131
7Dancing the Body Politic: Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Ballet162
8The Theater of Punishment: Melodrama and Judicial Reform in Prerevolutionary France182
9Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politic198
10Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France224
Contributors251
Index255


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