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The body politic : corporeal metaphor in revolutionary France, 1770-1800 / Antoine de Baecque ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
LIBRA DC136.5 .B3413 1997
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Van Pelt Library DC136.5 .B3413 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baecque, Antoine de.
- Series:
- Mestizo spaces
- Mestizo spaces = Espaces métissés
- Standardized Title:
- Corps de l'histoire. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects.
- Politics and government.
- Historiography.
- France--Politics and government--18th century--Historiography.
- France.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects--France.
- Human body.
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793--Death and burial--Symbolic aspects.
- Louis.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Art and the revolution.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- This is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe the revolution in progress.
- Notes:
- Originally published in French: Calmann-Lévy, c1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-357) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804728151
- 0804728178
- OCLC:
- 35701188
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