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Title From the royal to the republican body : incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France / edited by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg.

Imprint Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  944.033 F925 1998    ---  Available
Description vii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The body politics of French absolutism / Jeffrey Merrick -- Lim(b)inal images : "betwixt and between" Louis XIV's martial and marital bodies / Abby Zanger -- The king cross-dressed : power and force in royal ballets / Mark Franko -- Unruly passions and courtly dances : technologies of the body in Baroque music / Susan McClary -- Body of law : the sun king and the code noir / Joseph Roach -- Louis le bien-Aime and the rhetoric of the royal body / Thomas E. Kaiser -- Dancing the body politic : manner and mimesis in eighteenth-century ballet / Susan Leigh Foster -- The theater of punishment : melodrama and judicial reform in prerevolutionary France / Sarah Maza -- Sex, savagery, and slavery in the shaping of the French body politic / Elizabeth Colwill -- Freedom of dress in revolutionary France / Lynn Hunt.
Subject Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- France.
Symbolism in politics -- France.
Despotism -- France.
France -- Civilization -- Political aspects.
France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789.
France -- Court and courtiers -- Social life and customs.
Added Author Melzer, Sara E.
Norberg, Kathryn, 1948-
ISBN 0520208072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520208064 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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