Chloé Hogg, Absolutist Attachments Emotion: Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France
Submitted by ccarlin on 26 August 2019 - 10:34amNorthwestern UP, 2019. ISBN: 0-8101-3941-3. 288 p. $34.95 paper and e-book.
In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé 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.