Performative polemic : anti-absolutist pamphlets and their readers in late seventeenth-century France

Performative polemic : anti-absolutist pamphlets and their readers in late seventeenth-century France /

"Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the "war of words" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Eu...

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Main Author: LaPorta, Kathrina Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2021
Series:Early modern exchange.
Subjects:
Protest literature, French > History and criticism.
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Pamphlets > France > History > 17th century.
Pamphleteers > France > History > 17th century.
Politics and literature > France > History > 17th century.
Polemics in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • An Army of Authors
  • Performing Justice: Lisola's Bouclier d'état et de justice (1667)
  • Moving Speech: Performing Memory in Le Miroir des princes (1684)
  • Failure to Perform? Scripting Reform in Les Soupirs de la France esclave (1689-90)
  • Comedy of Erring: Performance in the Underworld in L'Alcoran de Louis XIV (1695)
  • Unbecoming Majesty: Performing Impotence in the Conseil privé de Louis le Grand (1696)
  • Epilogue: The King is Dead, Long Live Dissent.

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