Absolutist attachments : emotion, media, and absolutism in seventeenth-century France
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Absolutist attachments : emotion, media, and absolutism in seventeenth-century France
（Rethinking the Early Modern）
Northwestern University Press, 2019
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Bibliography: p. 249-267
Includes index
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In Absolutist Attachments, Chloe 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.
Table of Contents
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 Vise 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
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