Author: Sara E. Melzer Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520918800 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 279
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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 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.
Author: Henry Reeve Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3382147971 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 442
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: M. Cross Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403932743 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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Fourteen wide-ranging chapters by distinguished international scholars treat key aspects of the rapidly changing political and cultural scene in France from the First Republic, through the Consulate and Empire to the death of Louis XVIII in 1824. Falling into two interlinked parts, this collection of original essays explores new developments as well as continuities characterising the transition between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth. It includes chapters on feminism, politics and theatre, elections and plebiscites, revolution and counter-revolution, patronage, universities and education, medicine, music and science.
Author: Rachel Hammersley Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 9780861932733 Category : France Languages : en Pages : 210
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Following the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysis of texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions.
Author: Ernest Renan Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230463995 Category : Languages : en Pages : 20
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... to be as wise as the best statesmen, and to reduce politics to the mere consultation of the wishes of the majority, --such is the spirit which gains ground more and more, even in the country. I do not doubt but that this spirit is making progress every day, and that at the next elections it will show itself, wherever it may be in the ascendant, still more exigent and more intractable than it has been this year. Will, however, the republican party ever succeed in becoming the majority, and in securing the triumph of American institutions in France? I think not. It is essential to that party to be always in the minority. If they were finally to effect a social revolution, they might create new classes, but these classes would become monarchical the moment they became wealthy. The most pressing interests of France, the character of her mind, her good qualities and her defects, make royalty a necessity to her. The very moment the radical party shall have overturned a monarchy, the journalists, the literary men, the artists, the men of intellect, the men of the world, the women, will conspire together to establish another; for the monarchy corresponds to deeply-felt needs of the nation. Our amiability alone suffices to make us bad republicans. The charming exaggerations of the old French politeness, the courtesy which "places us at the feet" of those with whom we have intercourse, is the very opposite of that stiff, rough, dry manner which the ever-present consciousness of his rights gives to the democrat. France excels only in the exquisite; she loves only what is elegant; she can only be aristocratic. We are a race of gentlemen; our ideal has been created by gentlemen, not, like that of America, by honest citizens and serious men of...
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