Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France

by Kathrina Ann LaPorta

Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the "war of words" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Europe penned scathing assaults on the Sun King's bellicose impulses and expansionist policies. This book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy's monopoly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644532093
• ISBN13: 9781644532096
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 338 Pages