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title	:	From the Royal to the Republican Body : Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France
author	:	Melzer, Sara E.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520208072
print isbn13	:	9780520208070
ebook isbn13	:	9780585079080
language	:	English
subject	France--Civilization--Political aspects, France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789, Body, Human--Symbolic aspects--France, France--Court and courtiers--Social life and customs, Symbolism in politics--France, Despotism--France.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	DC33.4.F89 1998eb
ddc	:	944/.033
subject	:	France--Civilization--Political aspects, France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789, Body, Human--Symbolic aspects--France, France--Court and courtiers--Social life and customs, Symbolism in politics--France, Despotism--France.

Page iii From the Royal to the Republican Body Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France Edited by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley / Los Angeles / London

Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 1998 by The Regents of the University of California Parts of this book were published in earlier versions. Chapter 2: Excerpted from Abby Zanger, Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV. Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1997). Chapter 3: Previously published as Mark Franko, "Double Bodies: Androgyny and Power in the Performances of Louis XIV," TDR/The Drama Review 38, no. 4 (winter 1994): 7182. Reprinted with permission by MIT Press Journals. Chapter 8: A longer version of this essay appeared in chapter 5 of Sarah Maza, Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Clbres Prerevolutionary France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France / edited by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0-520-20806-4 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-520-20807-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. FranceCivilizationPolitical aspects. 2. FranceHistory Bourbons, 15891789. 3. Body, HumanSymbolic aspects France. 4. FranceCourt and courtiersSocial life and customs. 5. Symbolism in politicsFrance. 6. Despotism France. I. Meizer, Sara E. II. Norberg, Kathryn, 1948 . DC33.4.F89 1998 944'.033DC2197-22678 CIP MN Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication is both acid-free and totally chlorine-free (TCF). It meets the minimum requirements of American Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v Contents List of Illustrations vii Introduction Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg 1 1. The Body Politics of French Absolutism Jeffrey Merrick 11 2. Lim(b)inal Images: "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodies Abby Zanger 32 3. The King Cross-Dressed: Power and Force in Royal Ballets Mark Franko 64 4. Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances: Technologies of the Body in Baroque Music Susan McClary 85 5. Body of Law: The Sun King and the Code Noir Joseph Roach 113 6. Louis le Bien-Aim and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body Thomas E. Kaiser 131 7. Dancing the Body Politic: Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Ballet

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