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The Triumph of Pleasure

Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

The Triumph of Pleasure( )
Author: Cowart, Georgia J.
ISBN:978-0-226-21155-8
Publication Date:Oct 2014
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $48.00
Book Description:

Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority. With bold revisionist strokes, Cowart traces this...
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