
From the Royal to the Republican Body
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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 rit...
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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 rit...
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