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The Place of Exile. Leisure Literature and the Limits of Absolutism.
Juliette Cherbuliez
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Hardback. At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594.
At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Four case studies of everyday, sociable writing called leisure literature guide us through an ever-widening territory of disaffection and alienation, from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees. Those least likely to be considered political writers—banished noble women, novel writers, poor refugees—used literature to consider the ... Read more
At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Four case studies of everyday, sociable writing called leisure literature guide us through an ever-widening territory of disaffection and alienation, from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees. Those least likely to be considered political writers—banished noble women, novel writers, poor refugees—used literature to consider the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482218
SKU
V9781611482218
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About Juliette Cherbuliez
Juliette Cherbuliez is assistant professor of French at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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