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

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sense mediació

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volum

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0520208064
9780520208063
0520208072
9780520208070

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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-Aimé 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

Summary: "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." -- Google Llibres

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Magatzem Fons N	N-42449 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900087768

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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." -- Google Llibres

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