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The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800 (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)
The Body Politic Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France 17701800 - Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses
Author: Antoine de Baecque
This is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe the revolution in progress. — The author draws upon some 2,000 texts, pamphlets, announcements, opin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804728157
ISBN-10: 0804728151
Publication Date: 11/1/1997
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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