An edition of The Triumph of Pleasure (2008)
The Triumph of Pleasure
Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
By Georgia J. Cowart
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Publish Date
June 15, 2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press,University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
290
Description:
"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority."--Jacket.