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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.) : 18 illustrations
• Disciplina: 944/.033
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Symbolic aspects - France; Symbolism in politics - France; Despotism - France
• Soggetto geografico: France Civilization Political aspects; France History Bourbons, 1589-1789; France Court and courtiers Social life and customs
• Persona (resp. second.): MelzerSara E.; NorbergKathryn
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Body Politics of French Absolutism -- 2. Lim(b)inal Images: "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodies -- 3. The King Cross-Dressed: Power and Force in Royal Ballets -- 4. Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances: Technologies of the Body in Baroque Music -- 5. Body of Law: The Sun King and the Code Noir -- 6. Louis le Bien-Aimé and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body -- 7. Dancing the Body Politic: Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Ballet -- 8. The Theater of Punishment: Melodrama and Judicial Reform in Prerevolutionary France -- 9. Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politic -- 10. Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: From the royal to the republican body
• ISBN: 0-520-91880-0; 0-585-07908-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495969803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II