Author: Associate Professor of French Sara E Melzer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release: 1998-07-20
ISBN: 9780520208070
Size: 22.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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by Associate Professor of French Sara E Melzer, From The Royal To The Republican Body Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download
From The Royal To The Republican Body books, 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.
