Absolutist Attachments: Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France

by Chloe Hogg

In Absolutist Attachments, Chlo Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV's absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging periodic press, Hogg diagnoses the emotions that created absolutism's feeling subjects and publics.

Louis XIV's subjects explored new kinds of affective relations with their sovereign, joining with the king in acts of aesthetic judgment, tender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810139421
• ISBN13: 9780810139428
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"