Absolutist Attachments: Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France

ISBN-13: 9780810139428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Chloe Hogg

Opis

In Absolutist Attachments, Chlo Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV's absolutism. This book offers a view of another kind of absolutism--not the spectacular absolutism of an unbound king but the binding connections of his subjects.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Conversation with a King
• Chapter 1: Loving Alexander, or the Emotions of Absolutism
• Chapter 2: Media Wars: Emotion, Information, and the Passage of the Rhine
• Chapter 3: Feeling Newsy: Donneau de Visé Writes the Sun King’s Wars
• Chapter 4: Boileau’s Bad Taste and the Sieges of Namur, 1692-1695
• Chapter 5: The Surgeon King: Wounding and the Body Politic
• Conclusion: A Passion without a Name
• Works Cited