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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
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 267 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- France
Symbolism in politics -- France
Despotism -- France
HISTORY.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Civilization -- Political aspects
Courts and courtiers -- Social life and customs
Despotism
Human body -- Symbolic aspects
Symbolism in politics
Menselijk lichaam.
Symboliek.
Politieke situatie.
SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- Political aspects
France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051301
France -- Court and courtiers -- Social life and customs
Subject France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Melzer, Sara E
Norberg, Kathryn, 1948-
ISBN 9780520918801
0520918800
0585079080
9780585079080
9780520208063
0520208064
9780520208070
0520208072