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9780520208070

From Royal to the Republican Body

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520208070

  • ISBN10:

    0520208072

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-07-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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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 Bodywill be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introductionp. 1
The Body Politics of French Absolutismp. 11
Lim(b)inal Images: "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodiesp. 32
The King Cross-Dressed: Power and Force in Royal Balletsp. 64
Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances: Technologies of the Body in Baroque Musicp. 85
Body of Law: The Sun King and the Code Noirp. 113
Louis le Bien-Aime and the Rhetoric of the Royal Bodyp. 131
Dancing the Body Politic: Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Balletp. 162
The Theater of Punishment: Melodrama and Judicial Reform in Prerevolutionary Francep. 182
Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politicp. 198
Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary Francep. 224
Contributorsp. 251
Indexp. 255
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