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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 rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king's body and the substitution of a
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- Author
- Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg
- Publisher
- Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520208070
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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