Absolutist Attachments

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8101-3941-1
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Rethinking the Early Modern

In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV's absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging periodic press, Hogg diagnoses the emotions that created absolutism's feeling subjects and publics.

Louis XIV's subjects explored new kinds of affective relations with their sovereign, joining with the king in acts of aesthetic judgment, tender feeling, or the “newsiness” of emerging print news culture. Such alternative modes of adhesion countered the hegemonic model of kingship upheld by divine right, reason of state, or corporate fidelities and privileges with subject-driven attachments and practices. Absolutist Attachments discovers absolutism's alternative political and cultural legacy—not the spectacle of an unbound king but the binding connections of his subjects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chlo¿ogg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Chloe Hogg is an assistant professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh.