Baroque bodies
Subtitle: psychoanalysis and the culture of French absolutism
By: Mitchell Greenberg.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Baroque literature -- History and criticism.; Despotism -- France -- History -- 17th century.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- France.
Description: "Mitchell Greenberg explores the significance of fantasies of the body in seventeenth-century France through readings of some of the most intriguing texts of the period.".

"In addition to his richly nuanced readings, Greenberg integrates into his argument material from a broad array of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, feminism, epistemology and history. He also points out the implications of his argument for the political, theological, and historical thought of the period, moving effortlessly from witch trials in France to discussions of bodies in Renaissance English literary criticism to the works of Bakhtin, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Molière's body politic; title: Classicism's pornographic body : l'ècole des filles, l'acadèmie des dames; title: Absolutism and androgyny : the abbè de Choisy and the erotics of trompe l'oeil; title: Nun-sense : Marie de l'Incarnation, mysticism, and the oedipal trap; title: Racine's Oedipus : virtual bodies, originary fantasies.