Absolutist attachments : emotion, media, and absolutism in seventeenth-century France / Chloé Hogg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogg, Chloé, author.

Series:

Rethinking the Early Modern.

Rethinking the early Modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Despotism--France--History--17th century.

Despotism.

Monarchy--France--History--17th century.

Monarchy.

French literature--17th century--Political aspects.

French literature.

Mass media--Political aspects--France--History--17th century.

Mass media.

France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715.

France.

France--Politics and government--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]

Summary:

In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé 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--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Conversation with a king

Loving Alexander, or the emotions of absolutism

Interlude I: Sysigambis's desire (Scudéry)

Interlude II: Alexander's tears (Racine)

Media wars: emotion, information, and the passage of the Rhine

Feeling newsy: Donneau de Visé writes the Sun King's wars

Boileau's bad taste and the sieges of Namur, 1692-1695

The surgeon king: wounding and the body politic

Conclusion: a passion without a name.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-3943-X