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Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. The author tells the story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

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"One of the great strengths of Cowart's book is precisely its chronological scope.... Cowart's reach, combined with her considerable erudition and meticulous scholarship, allows her to make some very suggestive parallels between works that might otherwise have passed unnoticed." (Times Literary Supplement)"

The Triumph of Pleasure

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A Paperback / softback by Georgia J. Cowart

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 20/10/2014
    ISBN13: 9780226211558, 978-0226211558
    ISBN10: 022621155X
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. The author tells the story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

    Trade Review
    "One of the great strengths of Cowart's book is precisely its chronological scope.... Cowart's reach, combined with her considerable erudition and meticulous scholarship, allows her to make some very suggestive parallels between works that might otherwise have passed unnoticed." (Times Literary Supplement)"

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