Performative Polemic - Anti Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth

Performative Polemic offers a literary history of the French-language pamphlets that denounced absolutism during Louis XIV’s personal reign (1661-1715). The book employs performativity as a conceptual framework to trace the evolution of anti-absolutist pamphlets from legalistic texts indicting the French crown to satirical narratives that transformed the Sun King into a laughable object of derision.   

List of contents

Acknowledgments                                  

 

Note on Translations                                  

 

Introduction        An Army of Authors                                             

 

Chapter 1        Performing Justice: Lisola's Bouclier d'état et de justice (1667)

 

Chapter 2        Moving Speech: Performing Memory in Le Miroir des princes (1684)

 

Chapter 3        Failure to Perform? Scripting Reform in Les Soupirs de la France esclave (1689-90)

 

Chapter 4        Comedy of Erring: Performance in the Underworld in L'Alcoran de Louis XIV (1695)        

 

Chapter 5        Unbecoming Majesty: Performing Impotence in the Conseil privé de Louis le Grand (1696)  

 

Epilogue        The King is Dead, Long Live Dissent                    

 

Notes                                          

 

Bibliography                                                                                           

About the author

KATHRINA LAPORTA is a lecturer in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University. 

 

Product details

• Authors: Kathrina Ann Laporta
• Publisher: Associated universities press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2021
• EAN: 9781644532102
• ISBN: 978-1-64453-210-2
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: The Early Modern Exchange
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies