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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226093115
• ISBN13: 9780226093116
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"