Performative Polemic

Performative Polemic
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : 9781644532119
ISBN-13 : 1644532115
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Book Synopsis Performative Polemic by : Kathrina Ann LaPorta

Download or read book Performative Polemic written by Kathrina Ann LaPorta and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the “war of words” unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Europe penned scathing assaults on the Sun King’s bellicose impulses and expansionist policies. This book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy’s monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the crown legitimized its authority at home and abroad. Author Kathrina LaPorta offers a new conceptual framework for reading pamphlets as political interventions, asserting that an analysis of the pamphlet’s form is crucial to understanding how pamphleteers seduced readers by capitalizing on existing markets in literature, legal writing, and journalism. Pamphlet writers appeal to the theater-going public that would have been attending plays by Molière and Racine, as well as to readers of historical novels and periodicals. Pamphleteers entertained readers as they attacked the performative circuitry behind the curtain of monarchy.


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