Baroque Bodies: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America

by Mitchell Greenberg

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Mitchell Greenberg explores the significance of fantasies of the body in seventeenth-century France through provocative and subtle readings of some of the most intriguing texts of the period. Beginning with an eloquent invocation of the status of the king in classical France, Greenberg surveys the complex sociopolitical history of Louis XIV's reign, analyzing both Moli're and the entire corpus of Racine. The central chapters of Baroque Bodies deal...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801438071

ISBN13:9780801438073

Release Date:January 2001

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:278 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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17th Century Criticism & Theory Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling World Literature

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