Performative Polemic
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abolutism
absolutism
absolutist monarchy
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Anti-Absolutist
Author_Kathrina Ann LaPorta
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early modern studies
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expansionist policies
France
French history
French literature
French pamphlets
French Ruler
journalism
King of France
Language_English
late seventeenth century
legal writing
libelle
literary history
Literary Studies
literature
Louis XIV
Louis XIV's
media studies
Moliere
monarchy
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pamphlets
performance
performance studies
performative
performativity
polemics
political dissent
political enemy
politics and government
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Racine
reading publics
Reform
secret history
seventeenth-century France
seventeenth-century studies
softlaunch
The Early Modern Exchange
the Sun King
war of words
Product details
- ISBN 9781644532096
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2021
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 Sun King's 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 appeal to the theater-going public that would have been attending plays by Molière 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.
KATHRINA LAPORTA is a lecturer in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University.
