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100 1 $aCowart, Georgia.
245 14 $aThe triumph of pleasure :$bLouis XIV & the politics of spectacle /$cGeorgia J. Cowart.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2008.
300 $axxiii, 299 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-279) and index.
505 0 $aMuses of pleasure : Louis XIV's early court ballet, 1651-1660 -- Muses of memory : Louis XIV's late court ballet, 1661-1669 -- Muses of satire : Le bourgeois gentilhomme & the utopia of spectacle -- Tragic interlude : reversals at the Paris Opéra, 1671-1697 -- Sappho, Cythera & the triumph of love : the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1700-1713 -- Carnival, commedia dell'arte & the triumph of folly : the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1699-1718 -- Watteau's Cythera, the opéra-ballet & the staging of pleasure.
520 1 $a"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. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority."--Jacket.
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