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Scenes from the marriage of Louis XIV : nuptial fictions and the making of absolutist power

Title: Scenes from the marriage of Louis XIV : nuptial fictions and the making of absolutist power / Abby E. Zanger.
Author: Zanger, Abby E.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University press, 1997.

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xv, 244 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This book radically revises our understanding of the construction of symbolic power in the age of absolutism by examining the fictions that emerge from visual, narrative, and ceremonial representations of (and reactions to) the 1660 marriage of Louis XIV to the Spanish infanta. Drawing on semiotics, the history of theater and spectacle, gender studies, and anthropology, the author reconsiders the nature of representation in absolutist political culture.
The book is not intended as a history of the marriage. Rather, the author analyzes in detail exemplary moments or scenes from the royal wedding, in particular uncovering the dialectic at the heart of nuptial fictions.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Nuptial Fictions -- 1. Liminal Images -- 2. Fashioning the Body Politic -- 3. Views from the Border -- 4. Nuptial Technologies -- 5. Curiosity and the Art of Collecting a Queen -- Afterword: The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the King.

ISBN

0804729778 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97018467

OCLC

37322683
ocm37322683
SCSB-14267459

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Columbia University Libraries