Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g
Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g
Reihe: "The Body, Gender and Culture"
ISBN: 978-1-84893-056-8
Verlag: Routledge
Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.
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Introduction: Abjection and Display; Chapter 1 ‘She Will Never Acquire the Art of Pleasing’; Chapter 2 Embodied Faith: Madame Necker’s Intimate Theology; Chapter 3 Filial Duty and the Maternal Body; Chapter 4 Performing Pathology: Staging the Sick Body; Chapter 5 Specular Death: Staging the Virtuous Body;