The body politic
corporeal metaphor in revolutionary France, 1770-1800
by Antoine de Baecque
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This is a history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe the revolution in progress.
The author draws upon some 2,000 texts, pamphlets, announcements, opinions, accounts, treatises, and journals to exhume the textual reality of the Revolution, the body of its history. The deployment of bodily images - the degeneracy of the nobility, the impotence of the king, the herculean strength of the citizenry, the goddess of politics appearing naked like Truth, the bleeding wounds of the Republican martyrs - allowed political society to represent itself at a pivotal moment in its history.
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Art and the revolution, Death and burial, Historiography, History, Human Body, Politics and government, Symbolic aspects, Symbolic aspects of Human body, Symbolic aspects of the Human body, Louis xvi, king of france, 1754-1793, France, politics and government, 1789-1870, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799Places
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The body politic: corporeal metaphor in revolutionary France, 1770-1800
1997, Stanford University Press
in English
0804728151 9780804728157
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-357) and index.
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