The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800 by Charlotte Mandell, Antoine de Baecque

The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800

Charlotte Mandell, Antoine de Baecque

384 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

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This is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe...

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