Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The body politics of French absolutism / Jeffrey Merrick
  • Lim(b)inal images : "betwixt and between" Louis XIV's martial and marital bodies / Abby Zanger
  • The king cross-dressed : power and force in royal ballets / Mark Franko
  • Unruly passions and courtly dances : technologies of the body in Baroque music / Susan McClary
  • Body of law : the sun king and the code noir / Joseph Roach
  • Louis le bien-Aimé and the rhetoric of the royal body / Thomas E. Kaiser
  • Dancing the body politic : manner and mimesis in eighteenth-century ballet / Susan Leigh Foster
  • The theater of punishment : melodrama and judicial reform in prerevolutionary France / Sarah Maza
  • Sex, savagery, and slavery in the shaping of the French body politic / Elizabeth Colwill
  • Freedom of dress in revolutionary France / Lynn Hunt.