Kathrina Ann Laporta

Performative Polemic

Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Performative Polemic offers a literary history of the French-language pamphlets that denounced absolutism during Louis XIV’s personal reign (1661-1715). The book employs performativity as a conceptual framework to trace the evolution of anti-absolutist pamphlets from legalistic texts indicting the French crown to satirical narratives that transformed the Sun King into a laughable object of derision.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781644532096
• ISBN-10: 1644532093
• Artikelnr.: 61402856

Autorenporträt

KATHRINA LAPORTA is a lecturer in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University.   

Inhaltsangabe

   Acknowledgments                                  
 
Note on Translations                                  
 
Introduction        An Army of Authors                                     
       
 
Chapter 1        Performing Justice: Lisola’s Bouclier d’état et de justice
(1667)
 
Chapter 2        Moving Speech: Performing Memory in Le Miroir des princes
(1684)
 
Chapter 3        Failure to Perform? Scripting Reform in Les Soupirs de la
France esclave (1689–90)
 
Chapter 4        Comedy of Erring: Performance in the Underworld in
L’Alcoran de Louis XIV (1695)        
 
Chapter 5        Unbecoming Majesty: Performing Impotence in the Conseil
privé de Louis le Grand (1696)  
 
Epilogue        The King is Dead, Long Live Dissent                    
 
Notes                                          
 
Bibliography