The body politic
corporeal metaphor in revolutionary France, 1770-1800
Edición de la obra The body politic
| Autor | Antoine de Baecque |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Stanford University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | Stanford, Calif |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 363 |
| ISBN-10 | 0804728151, 0804728178 |
| OCLC | 35701188 |
| LCCN | 96044516 |
| Serie | Mestizo spaces = · Espaces métissés · Mestizo spaces. |
| Número de Cutter | B139b |
This is a 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.