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absolutism
Author_Chloe Hogg
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Charles Le Brun
early modern history
early modern warfare
emotions
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French studies
Literary Criticism
Louis XIV
Madeleine de Scudery
media
Mercure galant
Nicolas Boileau
periodical press
sovereignty
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- ISBN 9780810139411
- Weight: 393g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2019
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé 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.
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.
Chloe Hogg is an assistant professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh.
