Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage: Rethinking the Early Modern
Autor Anna Rosensweigen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 dec 2021
Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that the right of resistance, largely thought to have disappeared from French political thought in the aftermath of the religious wars of the sixteenth century, actually endured throughout the seventeenth century as a conceptual framework embedded and embodied in tragic drama.
Contemporary scholars have critiqued the modern rights paradigm for its failure to acknowledge the ways in which individual rights depend upon state protection and national belonging. Through a reappraisal of early modern French tragedy, Rosensweig provides a corrective to accounts of human rights that begin with the French Revolution, exploring previously unrecognized models for collective action that had emerged during the religious wars. Subjects of Affection reveals how French tragedy sustained these models of collective action by binding together individuals and groups through affect. Rosensweig places sixteenth-century political treatises in dialogue with dramas by Robert Garnier, Jean Rotrou, Pierre Corneille, and Jean Racine that were performed and published between 1550 and 1700. In so doing, she demonstrates how these tragedies, through their poetics and performance potential, stage a subject of rights whose collective constitution differs from the individualism of our modern rights framework. Through fresh insights and incisive readings, Subjects of Affection explores a form of political subjectivity that locates political power in connection to others—from staged characters and choruses to unseen collectives.
Contemporary scholars have critiqued the modern rights paradigm for its failure to acknowledge the ways in which individual rights depend upon state protection and national belonging. Through a reappraisal of early modern French tragedy, Rosensweig provides a corrective to accounts of human rights that begin with the French Revolution, exploring previously unrecognized models for collective action that had emerged during the religious wars. Subjects of Affection reveals how French tragedy sustained these models of collective action by binding together individuals and groups through affect. Rosensweig places sixteenth-century political treatises in dialogue with dramas by Robert Garnier, Jean Rotrou, Pierre Corneille, and Jean Racine that were performed and published between 1550 and 1700. In so doing, she demonstrates how these tragedies, through their poetics and performance potential, stage a subject of rights whose collective constitution differs from the individualism of our modern rights framework. Through fresh insights and incisive readings, Subjects of Affection explores a form of political subjectivity that locates political power in connection to others—from staged characters and choruses to unseen collectives.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810144460
ISBN-10: 0810144468
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 6 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Rethinking the Early Modern
ISBN-10: 0810144468
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 6 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Rethinking the Early Modern
Notă biografică
ANNA ROSENSWEIG is the James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor of French at the University of Rochester.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Affective Evidence
2: The Mourner
3: The Rebel
4: The Hero
5: The Savior
Conclusion: The Subject of Rights
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1: Affective Evidence
2: The Mourner
3: The Rebel
4: The Hero
5: The Savior
Conclusion: The Subject of Rights
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Descriere
This book reappraises early modern French tragedy to provide a corrective to accounts of human rights that begin with the French Revolution. The study explores previously unrecognized models for collective action that emerge during the sixteenth century religious wars.