In the King's Wake

Name: In the King's Wake
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226093123
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Post-Absolutist Culture in France

Автор: Jay Caplan

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Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien regi...

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Автор

Jay Caplan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2000

страници

213

EAN

9780226093123

ISBN

0226093123

Enbook ID

04543217

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

340

Размери

15 x 23 x 14

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Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien regime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. This book traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture across a range of works and genres: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, "Oedipe"; Watteau's last great painting, "L'Enseigne de Gersaint"; the plays of Marivaux; and Casanova's "History of My Life". While absolutist culture had focused on value directly represented in people (for example, those of noble blood) and things (for example, coins made of precious metals), post-absolutist culture instead explored the capacity of signs to stand for something real (for example, John Law's banknotes or Marivaux's plays in which actions rather than birth signify nobility). Between the image of the Sun King and visions of the godlike Romantic self, Caplan discovers a post-absolutist France wracked by surprisingly modern conflicts over the true sources of value and legitimacy.

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