Sonja Boon

The Life of Madame Necker (eBook, ePUB)

Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker's life - her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317323679
• Artikelnr.: 43418286

Autorenporträt

Sonja Boon

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Abjection and Display
Chapter 1 'She Will Never Acquire the Art of Pleasing'
Chapter 2 Embodied Faith: Madame Necker's Intimate Theology
Chapter 3 Filial Duty and the Maternal Body
Chapter 4 Performing Pathology: Staging the Sick Body
Chapter 5 Specular Death: Staging the Virtuous Body