In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France

by Jay Caplan

Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien r gime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. In the King's Wake traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture across a wide range of works and genres: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, Oedipe; Watteau's last great painting, L'Enseigne de Gersaint; the plays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226093123
• ISBN13: 9780226093123
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"