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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. The author draws upon some 2,000 texts, pamphlets, announcements, opinions, accounts, treatises, and journals to exhume the textual reality of the Revolution, the body of its history. The deployment of bodily images the degeneracy of the nobility, the impotence of the king, the herculean strength of the citizenry, the goddess of politics appearing naked like Truth, the bleeding wounds of the Republican martyrs allowed political society to represent itself at a pivotal moment in its history.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Body Politic
• Subtitle: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800
• Author: Antoine de Baecque
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780804728157
• ISBN: 0804728151
• ID: 04716544
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 743 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 1997

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