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Performative Polemic - Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France (Paperback) Loot Price: R982
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Performative Polemic - Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France (Paperback): Kathrina Ann...

Performative Polemic - Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France (Paperback)

Kathrina Ann Laporta

Series: The Early Modern Exchange

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Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the "war of words" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Europe penned scathing assaults on the his bellicose impulses and expansionist policies. This book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy's monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the crown legitimized its authority at home and abroad. Author Kathrina LaPorta offers a new conceptual framework for reading pamphlets as political interventions, asserting that an analysis of the pamphlet's form is crucial to understanding how pamphleteers seduced readers by capitalizing on existing markets in literature, legal writing, and journalism. Pamphlet writers appealed to the theater-going public that would have been attending plays by MoliEre and Racine, as well as to readers of historical novels and periodicals. Pamphleteers entertained readers as they attacked the performative circuitry behind the curtain of monarchy.

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Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Early Modern Exchange
Release date: June 2021
Authors: Kathrina Ann Laporta
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 978-1-64453-210-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN: 1-64453-210-7
Barcode: 9781644532102

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