From the royal to the republican body : incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France / edited by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg.

From the royal to the republican body : incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France / edited by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg.

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.

vii, 267 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The body politics of French absolutism / Jeffrey Merrick
Lim(b)inal images : 'betwixt and between' Louis XIV's martial and marital bodies / Abby Zanger
The king cross-dressed : power and force in royal ballets / Mark Franko
Unruly passions and courtly dances : technologies of the body in Baroque music / Susan McClary
Body of law : the Sun King and the Code Noir / Joseph Roach
Louis le Bien-Aime and the rhetoric of the royal body / Thomas E. Kaiser
Dancing the body politic : manner and mimesis in eighteenth-century ballet / Susan Leigh Foster
The theater of punishment : melodrama and judicial reform in prerevolutionary France / Sarah Maza
Sex, savagery, and slavery in the shaping of the French body politic / Elizabeth Colwill
Freedom of dress in revolutionary France / Lynn Hunt.

DC33.4 .F89 1998